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0 pointsgiancarlostoro4y ago0 comments

I think you're both asking the same question from different angles. If I understand correctly, and I could be misremembering but Zig is supposed to be compatible with C++ not just C, which is something that is not necessarily straight forward in other C / C++ competing languages. I hear even D has some issues with mangling and what not.

In all honesty, I prefer the syntax of D over all the others, it feels the most like Java or C# but with a lot of modern benefits. D is trying to do too much though it feels like and I would love for the next D standard library to support OOTB similar to what Go supports, especially a very minimalist web server, I think all modern programming languages should be capable of spinning up web servers out of the box. This is one small detail Go got right in my opinion.

Here's an article from the Chromium team on challenges they faced with trying to integrate Rust (or at least evaluating it) note the entry was last updated in 2020:

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

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noodledoodletwo4y ago

D nim and a few others offer nicer syntax over what's normally C for sure. Yea it doesn't surprise me that an established product had trouble incorporating rust, but at the same time, there's a reason why they went through with it right? Memory safety, no data races, etc. Like there is a motivating reason for using it. Meanwhile lots of other products have found ways of integrating Rust and some of them are risk averse products.

krylon4y ago

I like that the web server in Go's standard library comes as a library, so you can embed a web server into your application, even if it otherwise isn't web-related at all, just to allow for some introspection and/or control.

(To be fair, I think Python and Ruby have HTTP servers in their standard libraries as well, at least minimalist ones.)

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