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adgjlsfhk1 on Feb 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig; what I think after months of using it

the place where imo static languages come up short is first class functions.

Gibbon1 on Feb 5, 2025 | [–]

I think C# has first class functions. Any pure function you can pass around. And you can create lambdas.

gcc has nested functions that can act like a closure.

And Clang has blocks.

Turskarama on Feb 7, 2025 | [–]

What are you talking about, the majority of functional languages have static types.

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