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0 pointspjmlp10mo ago0 comments

It hardly brings anything new to the table in such cases, given its approach to safety.

Most of it you can already get in C and C++, by using the tools that have in the market for the last 30 years.

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It brings a lot of nice features, the potential for a healthier ecosystem, a unified build system, explicit allocators, explicit casts, and so on.

pjmlpOP10mo ago

Ecosystems sell languages, not the other way around.

lewdwig10mo ago

And yet C/C++ developers have mostly spent the last 30 years not using those tools which is why safer successors to C and C++ appeared.

pjmlpOP10mo ago

Zig is as safe as Modula-2 or Object Pascal, not the turning point of something like Swift or Rust.

detaro10mo ago

I think pjmlps point is that Zig is not adding enough to be one of those safer successors.

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lionkor10mo ago

It brings a lot of nice features, the potential for a healthier ecosystem, a unified build system, explicit allocators, explicit casts, and so on.

pjmlpOP10mo ago

Ecosystems sell languages, not the other way around.

lewdwig10mo ago

And yet C/C++ developers have mostly spent the last 30 years not using those tools which is why safer successors to C and C++ appeared.

pjmlpOP10mo ago

Zig is as safe as Modula-2 or Object Pascal, not the turning point of something like Swift or Rust.

detaro10mo ago

I think pjmlps point is that Zig is not adding enough to be one of those safer successors.

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