Discussion Thread: DIP 1034--Add a Bottom Type (reboot)--Community Review Round 1

[Walter Bright]

On 5/7/2020 6:45 AM, Dennis wrote:
>> * For comparisons, I'd use a more popular language than zig.
> 
> While Zig is young, from what I've seen it's gaining traction. More importantly, 
> it has overlapping goals with D (systems programming language, fix C's 
> mistakes). That makes their design decisions more interesting to me than e.g. 
> TypeScript or Python even though those are more popular. The only other systems 
> programming language that I know of that has a bottom type is Rust, which I 
> already included in the DIP. Do you have a particular language you'd like to see 
> compared?
> 
> For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_type#In_programming_languages

Actually, I think that link would be enough.