alt Hacker NewsMostly unrelated, but I recently built a small utility in Zig, Hare, Go, Odin, and V.
I never completed the Odin / V implementations since their standard libraries didn't have argon2 (a requirement for me).
Of the group, I liked Odin's syntax and feel best. Hare was also very nice. But Zig's optimized binary sizes were unbeatable. 96KB vs 500KB for Hare and 2.5MB for Go.
Zig's standard library and tooling are impressive. Personally, I wish more projects were written in Zig instead of Rust since Zig doesn't seem to have the package explosion problem that Rust has.
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Why do you think Zig won't have the same issue? In my experience lack of packages seem to come from no standard place to put them (C++, then you end up with effective package stores like Boost), or just not popular enough.
Most languages I work on (Rust, Python, JavaScript, Haskell), have a huge number of packages.
Its was so nice to just quickly write up a static file server. Just to play with wasm without needing to use the usual python http server thingy.
I was told the std.http.* isn't meant to be used for production servers but its nice that i now have a drop in zig file that contains a very very... bare bones static file server i can add to zig projects that might need it.
There isn't anything fundamental about Zig that makes it immune from package explosion. It simply isn't popular and stable enough for that to have happened yet.