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As much as I dislike Rust, I gotta give it credit where it's due. It has something unique: a borrow checker. What is so unique in Zig?
by johnisgood 1y ago
As much as I dislike Rust, I gotta give it credit where it's due. It has something unique: a borrow checker. What is so unique in Zig?
- flohofwoe 1y ago> It has something unique: a borrow checker. Rust's borrow checker isn't unique either but was inspired by Cylone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language) IMHO a programming language doesn't need a single USP, it just needs to include good existing ideas and (more importantly) exclude bad existing ideas (of course what's actually a good and bad idea is highly subjective, that's why we need many programming languages, not few).
- simonask 1y agoRust's borrow checker is unique in the sense that it is production-ready. Cyclone is indeed prior art, but it's not as if it ever got beyond the research project stage.
- johnisgood 1y agoI don't necessarily disagree, of course. That is why I like Odin the most so far, and perhaps C3.