nikbackm

There are already plenty of such languages, Zig among others.

Why even call it in that case?

Maybe related to text encodings?

I think riggrep will not search UTF-16 files by default. I had some such issue once at least.

No it’s not.

Geopolitical rivals then if you prefer that.

Clean, beautiful lead.

Who knows?

Can't imagine anyone here using 32bit Windows and limiting themselves to 4GB of RAM.

Are there even any cheap laptops sold with that little nowadays?

No, how does that relate?

Sounds like a protection racket.