Why “Zig” is being discussed
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It’s not a Zig post if pjmlp doesn’t claim the language is Modula-2 rip-off. Seriously impressive that you’re going to repeat that until the end of time
by mi_lk · Sep 20, 2026
Determinism and host/target agreement are two different properties. The Zig core team is apparently not concerned enough about the second point to forbid transcendentals at…
by weinzierl · Sep 20, 2026
Zig had a breaking change half year ago and since then ZLS only works for std and local code, not for any deps. Zig is nice language but dev experience is a real nightmare at th…
by cztomsik · Sep 20, 2026
Yes. I don't really understand why Zig gets more attention than dlang. It seems that it is more to do with the personality of the authors, rather than the technicalities. I get…
by abainbridge · Sep 20, 2026
> partial evaluation (comptime) as a single coherent mechanism that replaces a myriad of other partial-evaluation mechanisms (macros, templates/generics, constexprs). So sa…
by nialv7 · Sep 20, 2026
And Zig VScode extension is quite good.
by lr1970 · Sep 20, 2026
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