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Interested to hear what folks see as the major markets for Zig... EDIT: By markets I meant application categories, e.g. OS kernel, firmware, embedded, etc. I'
by networkimprov 7y ago
Interested to hear what folks see as the major markets for Zig...
EDIT: By markets I meant application categories, e.g. OS kernel, firmware, embedded, etc.
I'd already gathered that its closest competitors are C and Rust.
- loeg 7y agoReplacement for C (not C++) as a low-level systems programming language. (C++ and other language programmers often conflate C with C++, but the two are really different languages.)
- kyllo 7y agoIt's a systems programming language described as a replacement for C, this blog post shows how to incrementally replace C with Zig in your codebase: http://tiehuis.github.io/blog/zig1.html http://tiehuis.github.io/blog/zig1.html The single-page documentation is here: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/ https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/ It seems like it would be attractive if you want a systems language that's much more modern than C (and comes with build and testing systems) but you're not interested in Rust's borrow-checker.
- afiori 7y agoAs I understand it is meant to have merge lots of modern improvements but keep the (positive parts of the) feeling of C.