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Ok, that makes sense. So it’s a modern take on low level languages, like rust, but for those that dislike c for being cumbersome rather than for being less secu

Ok, that makes sense. So it’s a modern take on low level languages, like rust, but for those that dislike c for being cumbersome rather than for being less secure? Is that a stated goal of the language? Other than the feature to gradually move from c++ it wasn’t super clear from the main pitch.

munificent 1y ago
> for those that dislike c for being cumbersome rather than for being less secure? I wouldn't say "cumbersome", but perhaps "full of warts and historical baggage". They have some more details here: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/ https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/