Comment by baranul

Comment by baranul a year ago

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Not everyone thinks of Zig as a "no downsides and all upsides" C-replacement. First, a lot of people will take issue with it still being in beta and it being unknown how many more years will it take to reach 1.0. There are a bunch of C-replacements, or at least viable alternative languages out there. Both old and new. With more "C-killers" likely to pop-up in the not so distant future.

There are also a lot of people, after doing their Zig language reviews, that don't like it. Muratori (Handmade Hero) won't touch it and there was a recent article that's been covered on here and other sites, where the person explained why they stopped using it (linked below).

https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025 (Zig; what I think after months of using it)

hitekker 10 months ago

IIRC, the blog you linked was written by someone who loves Rust and other languages which have, to say the least, a different philosophy from C and Zig.

I'm not familiar with Muratori's opinion on Zig; do you have a link?

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  • baranul 10 months ago

    Muratori, who is a well known C programmer and instructor, has made his dislike of Zig quite clear[1]. Others, like Tsoding (many videos) and Kihlander (doesn't like syntax among other things), have given clear reasons for their dislike of Zig or why it was not their preference[2][3]. Various recognized programmers are not going to go along with, "no downsides and all upsides". Which for any language still in beta, would be a huge stretch in believability, by itself.

    It's not a Rust thing, as many C/C++ programmers are not advocates of it either and if venturing out to something else, can prefer other languages. Tsoding has even dunked on Rust as being unreadable[4].

    [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVhwALd0o4 (Language Perf... from 29:50)

    [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r49hMsruwps (Tsoding when Zig :-))

    [3]: https://kihlander.net/post/a-zig-diary/

    [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVpuhch9MQ (Rust Is UNREADABLE)

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