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Why have I been seeing a Zig post every day for the past week? Is there some kind of a marketing push?
by Demiurge 11mo ago
Why have I been seeing a Zig post every day for the past week? Is there some kind of a marketing push?
- zenlot 11mo agoWhat about more people using it? More than anything this looks to be natural evolution of language.
- Zambyte 11mo agoInterest on various topics comes in waves on HN. This week it's Zig, next week it's Scheme, the week after is Erlang, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary.
- Klonoar 11mo agoProgramming languages in general go through hype waves here; back in the mid 2000s it was some combination of Lisp -> Ruby -> JS with bits of Erlang in and around those.
- 0x1ch 11mo agoI think there's a small trend upwards for Zig & Nim right now. I've seen a few different front page posts for them in the last couple weeks. It at least convinced me to clone ziglings and get a feel for it this last weekend.
- refulgentis 11mo agoThere's bursts of them and every 3-6 months I see one like this, more practical, and remember I don't need to read the others. Then I forget in 3 months. Rinse, lather, repeat. (to this 16 year veteran of HN, it reminds of early 2010s Haskell)
- tapirl 11mo agostill less than Rust posts.
- bargainbin 11mo agoAdvent of code is coming, maybe lots of people looking for a language to learn with it?
- Defletter 11mo agoIt may be due to the async/io changes which may have caused a wave of renewed interest in the language