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		Milpotel 20 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why we built Lightpanda in Zig > If they chose Zig or Rust, I'd want to hear why that was a better choice than using a gc'd language. Come on, they advertise with benchmarks hence it's quite obvious why they didn't chose a gc'd language.

karmakaze 17 hours ago [–]

Oh yes I know they do in this post, I meant more generally. Even myself I often wish I had a need to use a lower-level, cooler language, but the pragmatic side of me just can't justify it.

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