What Andrew Kelley thinks about ideas vs execution

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

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9 Jul 2026

Our readingBugs are eliminated mainly by dedicating engineering resources to finding and fixing them, not by choosing a particular language or style guide.

Their wordsThe sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from the main way bugs are eliminated: by dedicating engineering resources to it.

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