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I would guess there will always be a niche for languages that make C's overall set of trade-offs. Rust will shrink that niche, but it'll still be there. I see Z
by brundolf 4y ago
I would guess there will always be a niche for languages that make C's overall set of trade-offs. Rust will shrink that niche, but it'll still be there. I see Zig as targeting that niche specifically: "we can strictly improve on C in a whole bunch of ways, without changing the fundamental bargain"
- throwawaymaths 4y agoThere is a market for statically checked c, as evidenced by the existence of something like SEL4 (though to be fair it technically checks assembly code) It seems like statically checked zig has a chance to be strictly easier to implement relative to statically checked C, and that's I think something to shoot for, especially since it could require very little on the part of the zig developers proper.