araoz

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1. 1.▲
   by araoz 3mo ago

   the best way I've seen it described is like this: Bun wants to move fast and breaks things, Zig forces you to move slow and carefully. Bun wants to ship new features ASAP (a shell lang, sqlite/pg client, etc), so they'd reall
2. 2.▲
   by araoz 3mo ago

   AFAIK zig is not trying to be "better C++" (that is Rust), zig is more like "better C". a ergonomic low level lang with very little abstractions. zig explicitly doesn't want to be better C++ or rust
3. 3.▲
   by araoz 4mo ago

   I don't remember where it was said first, but I think the problem was not "AI drama" or that zig doesn't have "a good solution". It was more a mismatch between Bun's & Zig's goals. Bun wants to mo
4. 4.▲
   by araoz 4mo ago

   writergate was not smooth, a lot of things that moved over to writer (Writer.Allocating for instance) had no documentation and I had to go read the zig source code to figure it out. the docs were just "instead of That use This"
5. 5.▲
   by araoz 4mo ago

   I believe if the work you do fits well with Node & TS, you have no reason to use zig (other than for learning or curiosity). Like, if you don't need every drop of performance, memory layout & control, there's more downside