Let’s talk about Zig
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Let’s talk about Zig
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I have been reading about this new language for a while. It’s a C competitor, very slim language with very interesting choices, like supporting cross platform compilation out of the box, supports compiling C/C++ code (and can be used as a drop in replacement for C) to the point in can be used as replacement of ©make and executables are very small.

But, like all languages, adoption is what makes the difference. And we don’t know how it goes.

Is anyone actually using Zig right now? Any thoughts?

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I started hearing of it in 2021. Read through the documentation in February of 2022 and started to learn it in Fall of 2022. Ever since then I use both, Rust and Zig depending on the small project or concept I currently want to explore.

I wrote a blog post that describes the 3 things I like about both languages each: https://zigurust.gitlab.io/blog/posts/three-things/

Might be interesting.

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