alt Hacker NewsThere's a different between fixing performance mistakes, which tend to be obvious in profiling as big hotspots, and designing for maximum performance, which requires that you start, really, with the specification of what your application is doing, then follow that through to architecture and design with a strong view to reducing unnecessary work and staying within the operations that can be done at high speed with current systems.
And Zig doesn’t seem to help with most of that!
If you’re already in your spec thinking about performance concerns at that level, then you can get pretty good performance in almost any language, though some languages might make it a little (lot) easier than others. But again I don’t think eg Zig vs Rust would be a big perf difference there.