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clr
Zig2025–2026
ityonemo / clr
clr
Checker for Lifetimes and other Refinement types
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Observed mentions: 2025-02-03 21:58:46 UTC to 2026-10-05 18:56:29 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 2025 | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| Mar 2025 | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2025 | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2025 | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2025 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2025 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2025 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Jul 2026 | 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| Aug 2026 | 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2026 | 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 2026 | 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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4 sourcesDNdnautics·Dec 30, 2025
idk. its pretty easy to look over the diffs and catch the worst of stuff. a few things do slip through bug i dont find it hard to scour over the code, bad stuff stands out or is easy to grep.
here's my current project, judge for yourself:
https://github.com/ityonemo/clr
In LLMs Are Not FunThere's active work towards that (which could run as part of CI) and it looks very promising: https://github.com/ityonemo/clr
In Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zigand for big teams you can run a checker: (wip) http://github.com/ityonemo/clr
In Why we built Lightpanda in Zigclarifying: It's just an experiment for zig PL, not affiliated with zsf:
http://github.com/ityonemo/clr
was where i got last year. this december im doing a "prototype" which means its going to be done in zig and im going to clear sone difficult hurdles i couldn't do last year.... also accepting sponsors, details on page.
also disclaimer, im using heavy amounts of ai assistance (as implied in the preview video)
In Why we built Lightpanda in Zig