Cro: Maintain it With Zig [LWN.net]

Cro: Maintain it With Zig

Posted Sep 10, 2021 2:23 UTC (Fri) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: Cro: Maintain it With Zig by atai
Parent article: Cro: Maintain it With Zig

It might help if you read more than just these lines. Zig is deeply compatible with these ecosystems, which is how it can - in theory - both make them more fun and productive and aid in escaping from those languages over time. Gradually migrate.

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Cro: Maintain it With Zig

Posted Sep 10, 2021 9:01 UTC (Fri) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

You got it.

The initial goal of Zig was to be a better C. I left the project because I felt that it had diverged from those goals, and that Andrew is driven by his ego and thus over-extends himself (although his abilities are quite impressive). However, it succeeded at many of those initial goals.

One reason it has been so successful is that it is not unwilling to throw off baggage, like a dependence on libc. The standard library is a major pain to anyone that tries to use Rust without a POSIX clone.