I spent close to 2 years procrastinating picking up Zig and learning beyond some light-reading of the documentation and Ziglings. A few months ago I was starting a new project, and decided I wanted to use this chance as an opportunity for learning a new language, as I find "real-world" programming to be a much better teacher than "Hello world" and tutorials. I chose Zig, as it had been on my radar for quite some time, and I am now a full-believer in Zig. I feel it captured the full control and performance of C, but with many of the conveniences and ease-of-use of Go (while also avoiding its annoyances). The syntax was a little off-putting to me at first, but it has a purpose, and once you learn it, you realize it allows for some very clever things that make writing code in it a much better experience.
i've had a similar experience. i've been following the dev streams since before Andrew took them off youtube. but never got into the language itself. finally took some time to sit down and build a project, and learned (grepped the zig std lib) the language
Andrew is a real one.
I’ve always said that I would create a non-profit cooperative for any serious project. Profit tends to corrupt everything…
I spent close to 2 years procrastinating picking up Zig and learning beyond some light-reading of the documentation and Ziglings. A few months ago I was starting a new project, and decided I wanted to use this chance as an opportunity for learning a new language, as I find "real-world" programming to be a much better teacher than "Hello world" and tutorials. I chose Zig, as it had been on my radar for quite some time, and I am now a full-believer in Zig.
I feel it captured the full control and performance of C, but with many of the conveniences and ease-of-use of Go (while also avoiding its annoyances). The syntax was a little off-putting to me at first, but it has a purpose, and once you learn it, you realize it allows for some very clever things that make writing code in it a much better experience.
i've had a similar experience. i've been following the dev streams since before Andrew took them off youtube. but never got into the language itself.
finally took some time to sit down and build a project, and learned (grepped the zig std lib) the language
12:49 Värmland mentioned!
was the recording not finished? looks cut out from the rest of the video..
anyway thanks for uploading this video! cheers!
it comes from the talk “Intro to the Zig Programming Language” ua-cam.com/video/YXrb-DqsBNU/v-deo.htmlsi=XqddOnxGafcWHVYk
Yea this is a small clip of Andrew Kelley's Zig talk from GOTO 2022 conference.
wikipedia still begs for donations even though its rich and doesn't pay its contributors well either :/