alt Hacker NewsI think the Zig people are really just worried that maybe Zig itself is a DOA language before it has even reached 1.0 because it doesn't offer enough over C for any serious use and their flagship project has now abandoned it.
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Zig is a DOA language for other reasons though. The reason why Rust enthusiasts act so morally superior is because they are:
> Rob Pike, an unsafe guy, may insist that a small language and garbage collection are enough. But the typesafe visionary Grzegorz Wielbodłąński understands the deeper truth: every invalid state permitted by a compiler is a tiny act of civilizational sabotage.
https://x.com/typememetics/status/2078572052680790237
There is no sense pretending anymore that languages with as many gotchas as C and Zig are "simple". Quite simply, they are not. The complexities lie in what's left unspoken, unaddressed, and of course undefined; failure to comprehend these completely can be catastrophic. Rust is so thoroughly and obviously the correct thing that using anything less correct should be taken as a sign of engineering incompetence.
Bun was the flagship product of zig? In reality or in YC land
Anyone actually using it knows it is better. The C interop is so good that there is no use-case where C is the better option IMHO