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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Naming Integers
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It's uncanny how effective it is to avoid bugs by simply naming integers and thereby giving Zig's type system a chance to catch mistakes. It's extremely annoying and time consuming to troubleshoot this kind of mistake at runtime, but it's trivial to solve when you get a compile error from a type mismatch. I knocked out#20599 on a plane ride last week (coincidentally on the way to a KQ tournament), so if you're tracking master branch, you can now use the zig build --watch feature on macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and Haiku.
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