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Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or?
Zig is a general-purpose systems programming language designed by Andrew Kelley. The language bills itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”.
This allows the somewhat humorous situation where you can write a function and marvel that it compiles in Zig, just to notice that you forgot to call it or declare it public and therefore it’s not actually checked. While Zig’s comptime undoubtedly makes the language more powerful and unifies three different concepts – generics, compile-time evaluation, and polymorphism – it comes at a clear lack of clarity and explicitness. Zig aims to be a modern C replacement with a focus on explicit control, safety, and zero hidden behaviour – but it often trades usability for perceived ideological purity.
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