Comment by agluszak
19 hours ago
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.
19 hours ago
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.
Technically means according to a strict, often legal definition.
The strict definition being we don't count developments that happened before version 1.
Like when we talk about Rust, we don't mention the virtual threads or GC or the @ symbol for GC references. Even though those all happened during its development.