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		rastignack 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things Zig comptime won't do Lifetimes and generic tend to leak so you have to modify your code all around the place when you touch them though.

xedrac 10 months ago [–]

Explicit lifetimes are not super common, and I haven't had any trouble with them causing refactor headaches. Generics obviously do leak, the same way that C++ templates do.

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