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by magicmicah852 hours ago |
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upvoteby eigilsagafos1 hours ago|
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Can’t every branch be considered an experiment? I have a ton of experimental branches that I don’t label «experimental». One of the reasons you use git…
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upvoteby magicmicah851 hours ago|
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Sure, but then how does it change anything around the discussion? You are still running an experiment to port to Rust, it still gets posted, the Rust-heads and Zig-heads still make their comments.
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upvoteby zozbot2342 hours ago|
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> there was zero indication this was an experiment

  The goal of Phase A is a **draft** `.rs` next to the `.zig`
  that captures the logic faithfully — it does **not** need to compile. Phase B
  makes it compile crate-by-crate.
I mean, it would be hard to spell it out any clearer than that! Code that fails to compile is just not very useful for real work.
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upvoteby magicmicah851 hours ago|
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Phase B clearly says compilation is the next goal. The first goal is to get a like for like logic, the second goal is to get it to compile. Can you guess what the third goal will be? Throw out the code?
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upvoteby zozbot2341 hours ago|
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The branch is named phase-a-port and the document explains what "phase-a" means. It's quite clear.
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upvoteby dspillett1 hours ago|
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Yes, but that would require people to read past the title. You can't get a proper knee-jerk first post in if you do that! Completely unfair to expect people to make that sacrifice/effort.

[there was some sarcasm there, BTW, if anyone has a faulty detector that didn't pick up on it]

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