kristopher
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Comment · 6 years ago
Thank-you for the question. Most of heavy lifting is in the actual compiler itself and in the vtables/trait interface feature. Although the cpp implementation now differs most, we never claimed to be a hard fork of Zig.
Comment · 6 years ago
A simple search on github will show what I worked on:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/search?q=author%3Akristate&un...
Comment · 6 years ago
Sorry, cannot talk about individual cases.
Comment · 6 years ago
Sorry, but I was a top contributor to Zig when we forked it. What did you contribute? No regrets, by the way -- conversation is important.
Comment · 6 years ago
Our communication with the ZSF seems to be on the rocks. If they can communicate politely, this could be possible. The ZSF has my email address.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi Loris, thanks for the question and congratulations on your new role at the Zig Software Foundation. We originally planned on supporting Zig in Japan via support contracts and this is from that preparation. Trademarks have multiple categories and one such category is for contract work and related materials. We don't plan to use this trademark to harm Zig.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hello HN and sorry for this bizarre drama!
Although we have a page documenting some outlandish comments that the founder of Zig has made about Zen[0], we find it well inside of our rights to fork the MIT Licensed Zig and make a better product with commercial support.
We had initial plans to support Zig in Japan, but efforts to localize Zig were not accepted and we could not take the risk of not having some sort of formal role.
Regarding commercializing compilers: our main market is in embedded and as others have pointed out, charging for compilers and support is not uncommon.
One of our big main differences between Zig is that Zen natively supports vtables and traits that we call interfaces[1].
Although our core market is in Japan, we are preparing our English website and hope to have it out soon.
On a more personal note, I am happy that Zig is growing and that they got the foundation together. At the peak before the fork, I was the 5th largest contributor to Zig, so I am very happy to hear when people say that they are enjoying the language.
It's midnight in Japan, but I will try to field questions if any.
[0] https://zen-lang.org/zig/ [1] https://www.zen-lang.org/ja-JP/docs/ch06-interface/
Comment · 6 years ago
Obligatory Google Teapot:
Comment · 6 years ago
This also affected MacBooks and was fixed in MacOS 10.15.3
iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210918 MacOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210919
Comment · 7 years ago
> Sadly, Mike Muuss was killed in an automobile accident on November 20, 2000.
Thank-you for your work. RIP.
Comment · 12 years ago
Mr. Atwood, you may be too kind. I see this as a chance to bring Markdown to a larger audience by not only standardizing it, but also renaming it as well.
In this endeavor it would appear that you are giving too much credit to Gruber. It is unfortunate that he was not one to be more gracious in the matter.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think that it would be appropriate to simply forget the "Mark" parlance and Gruber all together.
Everyone understands there is a Markdown ecosystem, but quite frankly this is the start of something new.
End-users also need an easy to follow name and site to learn the syntax.
I like the names SmartText or SimpleFormat or even perhaps CommonMarkup.
Comment · 12 years ago
Very similar here in Japan (Both Tokyo and Kyoto). The price for a glass of soda usually starts around 500 JPY (about $5 US). 100 JPY on the street in a vending machine and 150 JPY from inside of a train station :)