I agree with most of your points, but why would a Wayland compositor need a hypervisor at all?

That does not mean that "things as they are" is "how it's ought to be".

You don't have to love risk to build something you need.

Thanks so much for great work! I hope to finally see VisionFive 2 with enabled GPU acceleration soon.

...and it does not work. I tried it on ~10 random pdfs, including very simple ones (e.g. a hello world from typst), it segfaults on every single one.

   ~/c/t/s/zpdf (main)> zig version
   0.15.2

Sky is blue, water is wet, slop does not work.

+1, SREs can spend months during their onboarding basically reading design docs and getting to know about services in their vicinity.

Short of publicly releasing all internal documentation, there's not much that can make the AWS infrastructure reasonably clear to an outsider. Reading and understanding all of this also would be rather futile without actual access to source code and observability.

Considering that D in "ACID" stands for "durable", it's a pretty sloppy joke.

What's great about its type system? I find it severely limited and not actually useful for conveying and checking invariants.

> pass around the allocator to every function that allocates to the heap.

what prevents a library from taking an allocator, saving it hidden somewhere and using it silently?

Nothing, but it would be bad design (unless there is a legitimate documented reason for it). Then it's up to you as the developer to exercise your judgment and choose what third-party libraries you choose to depend on.

authors of the library

So far, most of Zig enthusiasts look to me like people who get sugar rush from writing fast native code and are ignorant (i.e. newcomers to system programming) or arrogant (e.g. long time C programmers stubbornly stuck in their ways) enough to think that memory safety is just a question of not writing stupid bugs. Or luddites that think that programs must always be simple enough to get memory safety right.

Fits perfectly on my understand as well.