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What do you mean? I've used zig on both linux and windows and never had line ending issues.


```

.\zig.exe build-exe .\hello.zig .\hello.zig:1:28: error: invalid carriage return, only '\n' line endings are supported

```

I just re-downloaded the 0.6 branch, and I get this error on latest Windows.

It's just one click in VS Code, but then I have to think about this every time I go between different files I might be working on.

It's NUTS to me that the compiler doesn't just regex them out or something, I can't justify using a technology that won't take even the smallest step for UX.

Imagine if you needed to set some character set or line-ending to bang out a python script, that'd be crazy, right? So, why should anybody bother doing it for Zig?

I want to like Zig, but I'm just not motivated to with an experience like this. I've been doing Python for a while, and I got my eyes on Nim for the next generation of languages.




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