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The language itself is the reason the tooling exists though, because it attracts a certain kind of developer that probably would not have done the same kind of
by Validark 2y ago
The language itself is the reason the tooling exists though, because it attracts a certain kind of developer that probably would not have done the same kind of work for other languages.
- fuzztester 2y agowhat kind of developer is that? interested to know. I have a lot of prior C usage background, including for nontrivial stuff, including a product, although it has been a while since I used it. and I am checking out zig as one of my next languages to learn in the C-like / systems programming area.
- geodel 2y agoI think it is logistics, infrastructure oriented vs language feature oriented. Looking at current PL landscape Go, Zig appears to be infrastructure oriented languages where features are just enough to keep infrastructure super fast. Whereas most other languages like Rust, Kotlin and so many more feature oriented if compiler gets fast, runtimes get better its nice but they'd rather work on long list of modern language features. To be honest PL market feels similar to consumer market where gadgets with myriad smart features sell more than plain but solid machines.
- fuzztester 2y agomakes sense. not too different from the market for operating systems or enterprise software. both suffer from the same malady. we need a remedy. :)