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That won't happen if there are legitimate reasons why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang) c

That won't happen if there are legitimate reasons why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang) chose Zig over Rust for their work. They both blogged about it https://tomas-svojanovsky.medium.com/mitchell-hashimoto-go-and-the-shift-to-zig-what-it-means-for-developers-4117a7d5d7fa https://tomas-svojanovsky.medium.com/mitchell-hashimoto-go-a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ5-41u-e7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ5-41u-e7k https://weeklyrust.substack.com/p/why-roc-is-moving-away-from-rust https://weeklyrust.substack.com/p/why-roc-is-moving-away-fro... Perhaps there is room for both... via C FFI interop, of course, lol (C FFI will probably long outlast C itself...)

wolvesechoes 8mo ago
> why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang) Both undoubtedly are talented programmers, but you overestimate impact and importance of these project. GitHub stars and HN posts are not very good indicator of what happens in the real world
- cbmuser 8mo ago
  I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted, but it's spot on. Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.
  - pmarreck 8mo ago
    Ever heard of Bun? Uber? Turso? Vercel? (And the highly-regarded Ghostty terminal of course) I mean, less is true, but “hardly” is doing a lot of work there https://github.com/rofrol/zig-companies-and-organizations https://github.com/rofrol/zig-companies-and-organizations
pjmlp 8mo ago
That doesn't mean Microsoft, Google, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, AMD, Intel, NVidia will be jumping into Zig any time now, just because some HN celebrities blogged about it. Those are the companies I care about when chosing which programing languages to invest my time on.

wolvesechoes 8mo ago

> why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang) Both undoubtedly are talented programmers, but you overestimate impact and importance of these project. GitHub stars and HN posts are not very good indicator of what happens in the real world

cbmuser 8mo ago
I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted, but it's spot on. Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.
- pmarreck 8mo ago
  Ever heard of Bun? Uber? Turso? Vercel? (And the highly-regarded Ghostty terminal of course) I mean, less is true, but “hardly” is doing a lot of work there https://github.com/rofrol/zig-companies-and-organizations https://github.com/rofrol/zig-companies-and-organizations

pjmlp 8mo ago

That doesn't mean Microsoft, Google, Apple, Sony, Nintendo, AMD, Intel, NVidia will be jumping into Zig any time now, just because some HN celebrities blogged about it. Those are the companies I care about when chosing which programing languages to invest my time on.