[NobodyNada]

Rust and Zig are the two most prominent new systems programming languages. It's only natural for people to compare them, from perspectives such as "I'm starting a project and need to choose what language to use".

The languages are very different in scope, scale, and design goals; yes. That means there's tradeoffs that might make one language or the other more suitable for a particular person or project, and that means it can be interesting and worthwhile to talk about those tradeoffs.

In particular, Rust's top priority is program correctness -- the language tries hard not to let you write "you're holding it wrong" bugs, whereas Zig tends to choose simplicity and explicitness instead. That difference in design goals is the whole point of the article, not a reason to dismiss it.

[arwalk]

Sure. Did i dismiss the article? Or was I only saying that the example was bad?

[NobodyNada]

I was specifically responding to the statement "Zig and rust do not have the same scope. I honestly do not think they should be compared".

I don't know enough Zig to have a qualified opinion on the particular example (besides being very surprised it compiled). However, I thought this post from the front page the other day had more practical and thoughtful examples of this kind of thing: https://www.openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dumb-For-Zigs-New-IO-Inter...