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I can't say that I feel naturally attracted to Zig's position on information hiding (although I do find the whole package a good fit for most of my personal pre

by pron 4y ago

I can't say that I feel naturally attracted to Zig's position on information hiding (although I do find the whole package a good fit for most of my personal preferences), but it's hard for me to predict how the gestalt of its features will perform in the market, not to mention that the market success of any product is affected by many factors that aren't intrinsic to the product. BTW, how did you reach the conclusion there isn't "all that much new C being written"?

kps 4y ago
‘Much’ is a relative term; there may be more absolute lines being written today than at its relative peak. But I see the spaces where a green-field project would choose C shrinking; even lightbulbs run C++ now that economies of scale have made 32-bit controllers so cheap. (I've written a lot of C, including parts of a C compiler, so I know it well, and I'm just not seeing it get much attention now. But if I could write Zig in a job I do think that would be more fun than writing C in a job again.)