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D vs Zig vs Go for practical, pragmatic development of possibly-cross-platform tools? Fight.

• smoldesu 5y ago
  I don't like any of those languages very much, but Zig seems perfectly fine for this sort of stuff. From the very beginning, I've seen people say that Zig should be used to offer easy, human-readable rewrites of basic C utilities without sacrificing execution speed. Meanwhile, I think Go would be much too heavy for a program like this, and D seems to be a little out of it's depths in this conversation.
• qmmmur 5y ago
  Nim
• nahuel0x 5y ago
  I'm not sure if it's really a problem for ncdu use case, but in Golang all the file I/O operations consume threads (in contrast with network ones), so is not easy to parallelize them: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6817 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6817 Btw, you forgot Rust :)
  • drran 5y ago
    In Rust, it's easy: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/blob/master/src/dir_walker.rs https://github.com/bootandy/dust/blob/master/src/dir_walker.... (Dust is "du + rust").
• dnautics 5y ago
  CLIs: For now, go. In 3 years? Zig.
• goodpoint 5y ago
  Nim
• sausage_dog 5y ago
  Nim!