I really believe the future is going to be Zig + Rust. They both have very promising futures. Production and safety critical software will benefit from Rusts increased memory safety and Zig will be great for bleeding edge performance and drop-in C replacement.
Kissaki@programming.dev
on 02 Oct 2024 10:47
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Using Mitchell’s donation we’ll be able to to offer Jacob Young a full time schedule. As a reminder, he’s the primary author of the C backend, x86 backend, LLDB fork that adds Zig support, and maintains the eZ80 toolchain on the side, all without even having the ability to bill full time yet!
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FYI the person with enough money to donate $300,000 to a programming language foundation is the founder of HashiCorp.
Good decision, zig is the next big boi of low level language. 💪🏻
Rust too complicated implies too much tech debt.
It seems there’s room for both
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I really believe the future is going to be Zig + Rust. They both have very promising futures. Production and safety critical software will benefit from Rusts increased memory safety and Zig will be great for bleeding edge performance and drop-in C replacement.
Not so bad in foss...
This is great example.