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by Zambyte 721 days ago
Thoughts on Zig? Just not popular enough to fit the bill or are there technical reasons?

I bring it up partially because they are not taking a "rewrite it in Zig" approach, they are specifically aiming for incremental migration in mixed C / Zig codebases.
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binary132 721 days ago
IMO zig is neat but not that much different (for better or for worse) than C and C++. I do really like the comptime concept and wish C had it, and I like it that allocators are explicit in interfaces. There are other things I don’t like about it and I don’t think it has much chance to supplant C or C++.
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pjmlp 721 days ago
Zig is basically Modula-2 for C afficionados, those of us that are confortable with C++ hardly have any benefit from it, those improvements are also on C++ type system.
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