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?

  • voxel
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    10 months ago

    comptime is a huge killer feature for me. I used it to generate ARM lookup tables at compile time and it’s amazing, it also removes the need for generics as types are just arguments
    for example the Vec function accepts a type as and returns a struct that can hold arbitrary amounts of said type on the heap.
    I eventually switched to rust + proc macros tho (zig solution was MUCH cleaner!) because both ZLS and the Zig compiler are terrible and still needs a lot of work.