The more I see of the Zig language, the more I grow to appreciate its beautiful design! Such a perfect blend (IMO; obviously personal preference will vary) of modern language features that encourage inherent reliability and safety of code, with low-level systems programming -- all without the language becoming too complicated or difficult to code productively in.<p>I'm really looking forward to tinkering around in Zig, for my next hobby project(s).<p>P.S. In fact, I'm going to 'put my money where my mouth is' and contribute via Patreon[1]. Zig is <i>incredibly high quality and well-designed</i>, despite being achieved from the spare time of so few; it deserves better funding.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk</a>
I <i>really</i> like the look of Zig syntax so far. I had wanted to use this year's Advent of Code contest as an opportunity to learn some Zig, but I had trouble getting the compiler compiled and working.<p>I see now that binaries are available (maybe they always were?)--maybe it's time to put Zig to the test on these toy problems.