ziandrome22

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1. 1.▲
   by ziandrome22 3y ago

   I'm aware of that, and the point still stands for me that I'm not sure what the point of writing in Rust is if you do all of those things.
2. 2.▲
   by ziandrome22 3y ago

   This gives a decent overview of some of the areas where the focus of Zig is different than Rust. Other than that...I'd just start by reading through the standard library code and the repo to get a feel. It's very very similar to C
3. 3.▲
   by ziandrome22 3y ago

   I disagree that the language of the compiler doesn't matter. It absolutely matters in some cases, all of which are cases where (ANSI) C is pretty much the only option because of the inherent difficulty of C++ compilers.
4. 4.▲
   by ziandrome22 3y ago

   You will need to generate code for the target which means LLVM/Clang (a C++ project) must support at the very least some amount of codegen for that target.
5. 5.▲
   by ziandrome22 3y ago

   I remain unconvinced about the viability of Rust for many kinds of systems programming. I'm not sure how I feel about it in the Linux kernel, although I suppose it doesn't matter since it's likely to not penetrate very deeply