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What can TypeScript learn from Zig? What can Zig learn from TypeScript?
What can Zig learn from TypeScript, and what can TypeScript learn from Zig?
It fills a similar niche to C: manual memory management, access to the bits of your data structures, compatible with C APIs, no object orientation. Inserting runtime checks would allow TypeScript to flip over to an "innocent unless proven guilty" model like Zig's, which would result in fewer false positives and make noUncheckedIndexedAccess easier to adopt. But the broader point from the forum was that maybe factoring this out isn't worth the hassle in Zig, because it's easier to see how all the pieces fit together with the explicit code, and to see what constants you're assuming ( 1024 and\n).
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