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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (7 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] 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Rust: works

Zig: segmentation fault

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Rust has cute crab

Zig has scary lizard

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It finished even faster when it crashes right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Development paradigms spearheaded by MySQL and PHP, where it was discovered that you can be really fast if you don't care about getting the right answer.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 1 year ago

That's very true. My main issue though is the steep learning curve

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Never heard of zig before, thanks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk I just wrote a simple cli tool in 2 hours in Rust. Complete with arg validation, actually helpful --help output, and parallelisation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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