Andrew Kelley

Matthew Lugg (@mlugg) landed a 30,000 line patchset into the Zig compiler today.

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10

Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

Mar 11 at 4:59amWeb
Show threadWolf480plMar 11
@andrewrk
this reminds me of a time I was trying to debug a piece of Python code, then realized it "wouldn't compile" (in my mental model of what python checks statically / at import time), only for me to realize that it's dead code.
Show threadNiki TonskyMar 11
@andrewrk Wait so unused broken code in a struct is okay but unused variable is a compile error? What’s the principle here?
Show threadnairouMar 11
@nikitonsky @andrewrk So the compiler won't care about the broken contents of the variable. But it still has to know the variable exists to track dependencies, which leads to knowing it's unused.
Show threadAndrew KelleyMar 11
@nikitonsky conditional compilation