Zig: What to Expect from Release Month

Writing Zig has been bringing me a lot of joy. It feels like I’m working with a machine again. The memory safety guardrails are just high enough to help out without feeling like a tourist trap.<p>There is space to enjoy writing code with someone’s PhD dissertation, untyped dynamic free for alls, and all that in between. Zig feels like a hacker&#x27;s language.

So professional. Also Infected Mushroom is great.

I’ve been a lurking fan of Zig for a while. Discovering they listen to IM and Bliss to code to just made me like their project even more.

Zig is a joy to write; it feels like a much-improved C. Writing and cross-compiling a custom app for Windows was great. The only thing I&#x27;d mention is that there is a lot of outdated information on the net for it. Zig has evolved and changed quite a bit, leaving it quite difficult to search (or chatbot) for up-to-date information on its syntax and idioms. It can be frustrating to get so many incorrect answers.

Cool to see!<p>I&#x27;m interested in learning a lower level language a bit better. I&#x27;ve spent some time in Rust and C (not enough to be proficient) -- is Zig a good candidate? It seems to have a lot of interest, I&#x27;m curious about objective views on its long term progress and forecast.

Ok, fuck it. Today project: Porting my vector and quaternion from Rust to Zig as a learning project.

There are so many cool projects using Zig already. Very excited for its future!

I&#x27;ve been trying to understand what Zig place is in the world so I can learn more about it. I like the idea of simplicity in programming languages but, other than that and since there&#x27;s Go already, what is the proposition here?<p>In particular:<p>- LLVM is not enough, let&#x27;s write our own compiler.<p>- Interfaces are an overhead, use comptime instead or roll your own vtables.<p>- In a world where &quot;memory unsafe&quot; languages are under attack... yeah, we don&#x27;t care about that.<p>I&#x27;m not trolling, this are serious questions from afar that I would love to figure out before investing time with Zig.

I&#x27;m excited to see how that x86 backend is, I haven&#x27;t tried it yet. It&#x27;s definitely an interesting step for a new language to do on its own

Regarding Aro (new C compiler in the Zig toochain), it seems that a C compiler written in Zig shortens considerably the path to supporting constexpr in C using Zig&#x27;s comptime capabilities.

The C&#x2F;C++ dropin compiler replacement in Zig now seems like a missed opportunity in Rust. Would that even be possible?

Incremental compilation!