[phplovesong]

Agreed.

But i would not put comptime as some sort of magical invention. Its still just a newish take on meta programming. We had that since forever. From my minimal time with Zig i kind of think comptime as a better version of c++ templates.

That said Zig is possibly a better alternative to c++, but not that exiting for me. I kind of dont get why so many think its the holy grail, first it was rust, and now zig.

[johnisgood]

As much as I dislike Rust, I gotta give it credit where it's due. It has something unique: a borrow checker. What is so unique in Zig?

[flohofwoe]

> It has something unique: a borrow checker.

Rust's borrow checker isn't unique either but was inspired by Cylone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language)

IMHO a programming language doesn't need a single USP, it just needs to include good existing ideas and (more importantly) exclude bad existing ideas (of course what's actually a good and bad idea is highly subjective, that's why we need many programming languages, not few).

[simonask]

Rust's borrow checker is unique in the sense that it is production-ready. Cyclone is indeed prior art, but it's not as if it ever got beyond the research project stage.

[johnisgood]

I don't necessarily disagree, of course. That is why I like Odin the most so far, and perhaps C3.