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As I pointed here originally, you need to be very careful about what you ADD to a language, because once the cat is out of the bag there is no going back, peopl
by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
As I pointed here originally, you need to be very careful about what you ADD to a language, because once the cat is out of the bag there is no going back, people are going to use that stuff. That's why I dont begrudge the attitude of the golang maintainers to be very slow in introducing stuff, because it is basically an irreversible step.
I suppose every thing in Rust has a raison d'etre but you pay with complexity that versatility. I think there is space now for a modern, memory-safe, SIMPLE, systems programming language. C has the backwards compatibility problem (although I am still bullish on its future) and a language like Zig never got any traction. Hopefully the future will bring new, interesting stuff.
- int_19h 4y agoZig is still very much work-in-progress, much more so than Rust. I'd say it's too early to speak of traction there.
- UmbertoNoEco 4y agoOK, it has been 6 years, so fair enough, let's wait and see at least for the 1.0
- loup-vaillant 4y agoThat's the difference between Zig and Go. As far as I can tell, Go was kinda rushed, and they called it 1.0 before they get to add the generics it obviously needed. And I bet adding those generics in a way that preserves backward compatibility was a bear. Zig will be done when it's done.