Is 2024 The Year Of Zig ?

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[SimGunther]

2024 is the year of "X is the year of ..." articles

[zwanzr]

"coffee machines are written in C". But to write C code, one needs coffee. How does that work?

[ebn__]

7:25 this is why I chose zig after escaping the Ivory Tower, simply due to the fact of how much stuff is already written in C, so being able to trivially use any C-library from zig without having to rely on some janky, possibly outdated bindings is invaluable… xlib, xcb, libgl, raylib.. the list goes on.

[inhuman]

Zig's C interoperability is such a killer feature. Love it.

[imorvit]

Also just a note on how zig errors work, Zig's `try errorResult` is the same as `errorResult catch |err| { return err; }`. All it does is say "if this is an error, return it so that the parent function can handle it"

[davidli]

4:56 “Learning something is better than trying to figure out the best thing to learn ever.” Never have I related to something so hard.

[nuxboxen]

"I don't know what CLIT is... never found one"

[kenneth_romero]

andrew kelly said they're changing the syntax after 0.12. can't wait to see what type of optimizations they can get with a different syntax. pretty exciting language, just has a lot more work to be done on it.

[SimGunther]

3:01 LISP has less syntax than GoLang because LISP is just words and values composed in a bunch of parentheses

[havokgames]

Your interview content is always so good. More please.

[benjikrafter]

Zig's C Interoperability is interesting to mix it with older C code.

[notuxnobux]

29:08 comptime is so powerful that i made a joke program where I read a json file (file stored on disk) at compile time and converted it into a struct and used that struct as a regular struct in the code.

[imorvit]

Zig is an awesome language. All of its bad PR is from people comparing it to Rust. Apples and oranges everyone!

[pyrolistical]

Zig competes with rust in the same way c competes with c++.

They have different philosophies

[roccociccone]

As someone who really likes Go I have to admit I like Zig. I’ve been looking into it and there are a couple of things that Go could actually adopt from Zig.

[maxilp]

bro is able to turn 9 min into 48, content beast

[CaptainNinjaKid]

Understanding control flow better, having explicit allocators, and having comptime make zig the ideal language for game dev imho.

[Foulgaz]

I think zig has the best philosophy for it to be adopted. The fact that it essentially can be used as an all-in-one replacement for cmake and clang/gcc and integrates well with C code is fantastic. Rust was created to be it's own entity, which is the biggest turnoff for people learning it imo

[steveoc]

A big difference with Zig/Odin/Nim/etc … vs The Others, is independence. They are run by programmers, for programmers.

Development costs are funded by genuine enthusiasts, with money flowing back to hiring qualified contributors.

There is no committee of highly paid political lobbyists who suck up the funding, telling the pleb volunteer programmers what to do next and how to do it.

Proper Freedom isn’t always the most efficient way to get anything done .. but damn, it’s the most fun by a long shot.

[Xemptuous]

Zig is my #1 favorite language. I tried to like Rust, i truly did, but once I tried Zig, I fell in love with how easy it was to just "do stuff"