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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Rust: it will take 10 months to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

Zig: it will take 10 days to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

You get to pick one cult. Which one is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I dunno man... having "no macros" as a selling point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'd like to point out, the value add of Rust isn't speed, it's safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it's just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Never heard of zig before, thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Zig isn't even v1 and without any API stability guarantees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It finished even faster when it crashes right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Rust: works

Zig: segmentation fault

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So how is Zig different from C or C++, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Much nicer than C, much simpler than C++, much less cruft than both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also no higher-order functions like map, filter, reduce etc.

Really weird design decision for a brand new language.

Comptime is pretty dope tho, I wish Rust had that instead of relying on macros so much.