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> So the future is Zig. He got there first. The future is many things, but a love letter to C is definitely not it. Zig is cute and a fun hobby project that m

> So the future is Zig. He got there first. The future is many things, but a love letter to C is definitely not it. Zig is cute and a fun hobby project that might see above average success for a hobby project. But that's about it. It doesn't address the problems people actually have with C++, not like Rust or Swift do, and it certainly isn't going to attract any attention from the Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, etc... of the world.

davemp 1y ago
Zig is not a hobby project. > It doesn't address the problems people actually have with C++, not like Rust or Swift do Speak for yourself. Zig addresses pretty much all of my problems with C++: - terrible compile times - overly complex and still underpowered template/meta programming - fragmented/ancient build tools - actually good enums/tagged unions - exceptions - outdated OOP baggage I don’t actually mind C++ that much, but Zig checks pretty much all of my boxes. Rust/swift check some of these but not all and add a few of their own. > and it certainly isn't going to attract any attention from the Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, etc... of the world. Yeah of course. Zig isn’t trying to be a max ergonomics scripting language…