Comment by c0rruptbytes
19 hours ago
i'm not cool and hip like hacker news devs, but I've been seeing Zig a lot, is this the new cool thing on the street? no more Rust?
19 hours ago
i'm not cool and hip like hacker news devs, but I've been seeing Zig a lot, is this the new cool thing on the street? no more Rust?
It's a hard-to-dislike language in the niche of systems programming.
The author is strongly biased and opinionated on his architectural and design choices, and those choices resonate with many.
I don't like the @ all over the place and the approach to slurping source as structs for libraries.
I would faster get back to Modula-2 or Object Pascal.
Zig's been around for ~10 years. It's more low-level and lightweight than Rust. Different goals, different trade-offs. If Rust is the new C++, Zig is the new C.
> If Rust is the new C++, Zig is the new C.
thank you, this helps!
I used to think Zig was the new C, but its different enough to be its own category, imho. For an actually "new" C, try https://c3-lang.org/.
Still no 1.0 version though. So technically it's year 0.
"technically" usually means something like "strictly", not "by a completely different metric". work takes time. zig has had a decade of work put into it.
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