Zig's Andrew Kelley: "The compiler is too dam slow, that's why we have bugs..."

[Walter Bright]

On 1/29/2024 12:51 PM, Don Allen wrote:
> But Andrew's marketing flair seems to 
> have attracted a lot of followers. At least in the compiler area, D seems to be 
> the opposite. No marketing flair, but DMD in my experience is rock solid (and 
> FAST). Even the much-maligned Phobos has worked well for me. D's documentation, 
> though far from perfect, is far better than zig's, which I think is absolutely 
> awful.
Andrew is definitely charismatic and likeable, I've met him. D has an advantage 
in that I've written multiple compilers before D. Contrast how very different 
the Digital Mars C compiler's internals are from D.