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Zig is a really interesting language for game dev. I was thinking about using Zig with raylib for my next project. The show stopper was that C ABI compatibilit

Zig is a really interesting language for game dev. I was thinking about using Zig with raylib for my next project. The show stopper was that C ABI compatibility is not yet complete: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1481 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1481 I could have probably worked around it but decided to go the C and Lua for scripting route for now which works great but I can totally see Zig as a decent C replacement. I am not interested in Windows but I am wishing you best of luck with your project. Seems quite interesting.

dralley 5y ago
One of the nicer things about Zig is that the unoptimized debug binaries are still pretty fast, often only 2 or 3 times slower than the optimized ones rather than 10+ times slower. Presumably because Rust and C++ have a lot of abstractions that have to be sent through the optimizer to be truly "zero-cost". That, combined with generally really fast compiles (again relative to C++ and Rust) is a nice combination for game devs.