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Strangely they don't mention that (allegedly? According to them at least) they already use Zig for the standard library[0]. Which was also started to be written
by bmacho 2y ago
Strangely they don't mention that (allegedly? According to them at least) they already use Zig for the standard library[0]. Which was also started to be written in Rust, then it got rewritten in Zig:
[0] : https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#rust-and-zig https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#rust-and-zig
- laserbeam 2y ago> (and to unblock updating to the latest Zig version, which we've use for our stdlib for years) It's somewhere in the middle of the list of the "Why now?" section.
- thegeekpirate 2y agoThey do mention it but there's only 10k lines of Zig, so it's hardly a blip in the grand scheme of things.