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People that like C, won't move from C and don't have many reasons to do so. It's the lingua franca of software development. Zig is appealing to the "I'd like
by epolanski 14d ago
People that like C, won't move from C and don't have many reasons to do so.
It's the lingua franca of software development.
Zig is appealing to the "I'd like to work in a C-like system programming language but I'm not a C veteran" crowd.
Not a small crowd by any means, but will always be a niche.
- a96 13d agoAs a C veteran, Zig is interesting to me because of the compiler that still happily eats C. It has potential as a (cross!) development tool that can do a bit more than C tools alone. Which also describes Rust to some extent, but I think Rust would be more a full replacement. Which in turn is exciting because there hasn't been anything before that might replace C in my (embedded or -ish) environment. I haven't actually tried to find out if that Zig promise is real, though. Just some trivial little things. No day job excuse and no personal projects where it would fit.