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cfiggersyesterday at 11:50 AM4 repliesview on HN

I would say the flagship Zig project is TigerBeetle, not Bun.


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eatonphilyesterday at 12:32 PM

If TigerBeetle is the Zig flagship then Zig is untenable for almost any team, because Tiger Style is untenable for almost any team. No, I think that Tiger Style makes Zig mostly unimportant.

On the other hand, as a corporate backer for Zig, TigerBeetle is definitely a big deal.

But in terms of exemplary and imitable projects in the ecosystem I would think something like Ghostty is the safer label for "flagship".

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Aurornisyesterday at 2:11 PM

TigerBeetle has a unique static memory allocation strategy at launch time. It’s a strategy that sidesteps a lot of memory management issues but only works for very specific use cases.

Their success with this strategy isn’t portable to most other projects. I think they really need more traditional flagship projects that generalize to typical memory management use cases. The way the conversation keeps coming back to TigerBeetle as a success story isn’t helpful to anyone trying to evaluate the memory management angle.

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rasmus1610yesterday at 12:31 PM

some may argue for ghostty but yeah :)

fridderyesterday at 1:00 PM

or libghostty