apt VS zig-slotmap

And if that's not enough, you yourself seem to have been responsible that exactly this change was added to apt. If I may refresh your memory: https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1 It even links to upstream Debian work mentioning exactly this method: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/196

And no matter how hard it is, if it's possible to break it, someone will find their way to completely breaking the system. Look at what Linus had to do to break his Pop!_OS install - go to the terminal (which already renders it far out of reach for the average user), run sudo apt install steam, and ignore a giant error. And that wouldn't work anymore anyway, because Pop now uses a version of APT that completely forbids breaking the system unless specifically configured to allow it - so there is now an extra step in there, telling APT not to preserve pop-desktop.

This isn't locking it down. This is about providing sensible defaults like I mentioned before. For power users, the control is still there. It's easy enough to create the `/etc/apt/break-my-system` file so that you can shoot yourself in the foot if you wanted to. This is not similar to what ChromeOS or Android is doing at all.

ah, I thought you mean https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1

- Improve the GUI package manager error message: https://github.com/pop-os/shop/pull/302 - Make the apt message more explicit and make the bypass much harder: https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1

https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1/files Here is the code change. Note line 311.

They have already committed a fix that improves things dramatically.

And they already issued a "fix" to prevent people to easily "break" it.

And their fix for the issue Linus had is downstream only. Not a word said about working with Debian on this.

Everyone who works here knows C, C++, Vala, JavaScript, Python, and Rust, at the very least. I happen to also know Elixir, Zig, Haskell, Julia, Java, Go, Assembly, etc. So your entire argument about us "not being able to handle what exists" is complete nonsense. You just prove that you don't understand software development very well at all, or any kind of field where research and development is performed.

I've tried out Zig and it was a fun experiment. Created a slotmap library for it, too. https://github.com/mmstick/zig-slotmap For what it is, the code is quite readable. At the end of the day, however, I wouldn't feel comfortable using it for a project that I want to be reliable or secure. Some of the concepts are really cool, but I can't justify the loss of type safety and borrow checks. I'll take it over C any day though. Memory management is much less prone to error.