I have been reading about this new language for a while. It’s a C competitor, very slim language with very interesting choices, like supporting cross platform compilation out of the box, supports compiling C/C++ code (and can be used as a drop in replacement for C) to the point in can be used as replacement of ©make and executables are very small.

But, like all languages, adoption is what makes the difference. And we don’t know how it goes.

Is anyone actually using Zig right now? Any thoughts?

  • ck_@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Ah, that is another thing that Zig does well (in my opinion). Instead of having a global allocation call, Zig uses an allocator interface interface, meaning you as the programmer can plug in different allocation strategies as you require. So depending on if you do or don’t like that behavior, just pick the allocator accordingly, either for your whole program or just for parts of it.