Zig: Build System Reworked

I just upgraded some code to Zig 0.16.0 and I am actually really happy with the results. It impacted A LOT of things, but the changes were actually very good and seems to have set the language for a bright future, especially with the new IO mechanism which allows supper efficient code that looks good whether it's implemented single-threaded, multi-threaded or just via an event loop!

If you haven't tried Zig since 0.16.0 was released, I highly recommend having a look. The release notes for this release were huge!!

https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html

After having used Zig for a couple of months now I am convinced it is a fantastic tool language. You just pick it up to hack some idea together freely. Every time I hit a wall, I find the creators have thought of it already and offers comfort. But nothing gets in your face how to use the programming language "correctly".

For me it is now the go-to "tinker in my garage" language.

After watching Andrew Kelley's interview video makes me want to pick up Zig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ

> We’ll be releasing 0.17.0 within a couple weeks from now.

This is amazing. Didn't 0.16 take >1 year?

I was not expecting such a fast 0.17 release, but am very pleased to find this out today.

Would someone tell a rust user why they should and should not try zig?

Why would I want to use this over, say, Node.js and TypeScript?

This sounds like great news, Zig's compilation times are already terrific and this is going to only make them better.

Is there any proposed timeline for a stable release? Big features like the recent async IO shows the language is very unstable right now.

Zig has so many compelling features, and I'd even be willing to give up Rust's near-perfect memory safety in some cases. But the one thing that really put me off is string handling. It's just so super tedious. I like being able to finely manage individual string memory allocations, but I really don't want to have to do it all the time. RAII is great; I wish they'd use some light (optional) RAII for strings and containers etc.

So i checked the license of this project, can anyone pls clarify what is (Expat) after MIT License

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Bun is moving towards rust but does this also help bun's compilation times?

https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio...