[tamnd]

Oh, and I just submitted a link to my article about C. I am pretty sure no one will click it.

Articles about C never get much traffic, but that is fine. I wrote it because I care about how things really work, not because I expect it to trend. If even a few people read it and see the beauty in the old language that still runs the world, that is enough.

[rand0m4r]

I would like to find more articles on C so feel free to share, thanks

[tamnd]

Here is the link for you: https://github.com/little-book-of/c/blob/main/articles/zig-i...

I hope next month I will have more time to write deep dives into the internals of SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis and maybe curl, all written in C.

[zobzu]

thanks, i enjoyed reading it (though a bit lengthy).

what gets me personally is what you describe at https://github.com/little-book-of/c/blob/main/articles/zig-i... - zig is made to feel easy and modern for people who don't know any better, and it does this well. But as soon as you actually need to do complex stuff, it gets in the way moreso than C and it's current environment/ecosystem will.

And to be fair, as much as I enjoyed writing in C in my younger years - I only use C when I actually need C. And asm when I actually need asm. Most of my code now uses higher level languages - this puts zig into such a niche.. it feels like golang to me: the cool language that isn't really solving as much of a need as you'd think.

[bnolsen]

I don't think zig is that much more complex than golang, with a (currently) crappier standard library. The bonus being you leave no performance on the table. I wonder if it would work with devops, where both c++ and rust fails.

[tamnd]

And I want to clarify again, these are just personal notes written with some help from LLMs. They may contain mistakes, so please read them with curiosity, or feel free to skip them altogether.

[tamnd]

I mean, if you embed Zig in a larger C++, Rust, or Python project, coordinating the build systems can be difficult. Zig prefers to manage the entire pipeline itself, so mixing it with other compilers and dependency managers can require workarounds. In my opinion, the only practical way to do this is by exposing C interfaces.

[tamnd]

and my favorites:

   - https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/
   - https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html

[rand0m4r]

thanks again