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Consulting Wikipedia's "first appeared" field for each: D: 8 December 2001; 20 years ago Go: November 10, 2009; 12 years ago Rust: July 7, 2010; 12 years ago
by sullyj3 4y ago
Consulting Wikipedia's "first appeared" field for each:
D: 8 December 2001; 20 years ago
Go: November 10, 2009; 12 years ago
Rust: July 7, 2010; 12 years ago
TypeScript: 1 October 2012; 10 years ago
Zig: 8 February 2016; 6 years ago
The only one of these which isn't at least twice as old as Zig is TypeScript, which has the might of Microsoft behind it, and is based on a well understood, pre-existing language.
This is not a fair comparison.
- Tozen 4y agoHowever, when it comes to comparing just as old or even newer languages than Zig, such as Odin, Jai, Vlang, Carbon, etc... Various people have no mercy whatsoever.
- actuallyalys 4y agoThe more reasonable interpretation (backed up by his other posts on this article and his use of "was") is that he is comparing Zig as it stands today to D, Go, Rust, and TypeScript when they were similarly new.
- sullyj3 4y agoFair point.