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by pmarreck 124 days ago
That won't happen if there are legitimate reasons why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang) chose Zig over Rust for their work. They both blogged about it

https://tomas-svojanovsky.medium.com/mitchell-hashimoto-go-a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ5-41u-e7k

https://weeklyrust.substack.com/p/why-roc-is-moving-away-fro...

Perhaps there is room for both... via C FFI interop, of course, lol

(C FFI will probably long outlast C itself...)
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pjmlp 124 days ago
That doesn't mean Microsoft, Google, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, AMD, Intel, NVidia will be jumping into Zig any time now, just because some HN celebrities blogged about it.

Those are the companies I care about when chosing which programing languages to invest my time on.

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wolvesechoes 124 days ago
> why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang)

Both undoubtedly are talented programmers, but you overestimate impact and importance of these project.

GitHub stars and HN posts are not very good indicator of what happens in the real world

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cbmuser 124 days ago
I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted, but it's spot on.

Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.

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pmarreck 122 days ago
Ever heard of Bun? Uber? Turso? Vercel? (And the highly-regarded Ghostty terminal of course)

I mean, less is true, but “hardly” is doing a lot of work there

https://github.com/rofrol/zig-companies-and-organizations

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