<story><title>Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig</title><url>https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just old, but first thing I would look for in a strongly typed language is int vs float, but all I see here is num. Is a single numeric type expected for modern languages?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hhvn</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s more to do with it being a scripting language. Scripting languages are designed to be quick and easy to write, so instead of having to deal with int&amp;#x2F;float etc, the language can do it for you.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig</title><url>https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mysterydip</author><text>Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just old, but first thing I would look for in a strongly typed language is int vs float, but all I see here is num. Is a single numeric type expected for modern languages?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Deukhoofd</author><text>&amp;gt; Numbers are either internally i64 or f64 and are coerced from one to the other as needed&lt;p&gt;I agree, not quite my preference in scripting languages. I prefer to be able to deal with numeric representation.</text></comment>