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		rastignack 9 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 9 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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