Assorted thoughts on Zig and Rust (2020)

It is really interesting to see the trade offs. I have never read something before from someone who was familiar with both languages.<p>The comptime reflection in zig seems particularly powerful. Proc macros are just so difficult to write that I often just introduce a bunch of code duplication instead. As const rust gets better and better, I wonder if you could eventually add something like comptime to rust.

I&#x27;ll paraphrase something I once heard, -- &quot;There are two types of Rust programmers: 1) Functional programmers who want to go fast&#x2F;er, and 2) those that want to type check their assembly.&quot; This is an article for type 2).

It&#x27;s a really good review &#x2F; set of thoughts, mostly still representing the current understanding of Rust and Zig.<p>Currently the page 404&#x27;s, this (still) does work:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:_Xrwm0yymL4J:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust&#x2F;</code></pre>