alt Hacker Newsi'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?
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agluszak • yesterday at 8:47 PM
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.
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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.