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 th

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.