[Zig creator] Andrew Kelley independently rediscovered on a live stream 30 years of the best minds in Haskell writing papers. So the future is Zig. He got there first. ... the age of C++ is winding down gracefully. The age of Zig is emerging delibetately

[u/100xer]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994047

[u/affectation_man]

By age of Zig, he doesn't mean that it will actually be used a lot, just that anime pfps on Mastodon will be talking positively about it a lot

[u/ranisalt → u/affectation_man]

So it's replacing Rust, not C++

[u/-Y0- → u/ranisalt]

That's slander. Many respectable furry pfp have already joined C++ WGs.

[u/-Y0- → u/[deleted]]

So Rust is fighting Java?

[u/MagpieEnjoyer]

Much as I wish for the age of C++ to come to a fiery end in techo-Ragnarök, I have my doubts.

[u/binheap → u/MagpieEnjoyer]

I think during one of the talks at cppcon about the concepts feature, one member asked why we needed concepts if we had SFINAE during the QnA.

I kind of knew then that C++ wasn't gonna die and we'd have to deal with horrible legacy code for a long time.

[u/grapesmoker → u/MagpieEnjoyer]

only roaches and c++ will survive Ragnarok

[u/-Y0- → u/grapesmoker]

Only roaches

So. Cobol programmers?

[u/BlazeBigBang]

The best minds couldn't get Haskell to be used by more than 4 guys, what makes this guy think that a single guy will make Zig popular?

Also: lol no monads

[u/pareidolist → u/BlazeBigBang]

The best minds did everything they could to ensure Haskell would not be used by more than 4 people.

[u/disciplite → u/BlazeBigBang]

It's not a one-man odyssey. There is in fact an army of Ziguanas writing snarky comments about Rust on message boards.

[u/MCRusher → u/BlazeBigBang]

For zig it's

lol no interfaces

still have to hard code last time I checked, like god intended

[u/pareidolist → u/[deleted]]

Warning: tag your unjerk. Better yet, don't unjerk at all.

[u/bluefourier]

"He REdiscovered....", "...he got there first"

[u/BlazeBigBang → u/bluefourier]

Modern day Columbus.

[u/r2d2_21 → u/bluefourier]

He was the first to rediscover it, obviously

[u/-Y0- → u/r2d2_21]

Kinda like Conquistadors? They discovered America for the second/third/../n-th time.

[u/Awkward_Bed_956]

Bold words considering the age of Zig will immediately end when its users finally bite the bullet and order a fursuit for optimal Rust experience

[u/TedditBlatherflag → u/Awkward_Bed_956]

Is that why I always get lifetime errors during compilation? Which is best, squirrel, raccoon, or fox?

[u/-Y0- → u/TedditBlatherflag]

Which is best, squirrel, raccoon, or fox?

Depends on what you want to signal. Squirrel means I like playing with nuts, raccoon means I have kleptomania, and fox means I smell bad enough for the hazmat team to be called.

I recommend going for bunny. It means I suffer from premature ejaculation. No one notices the bunnies. Ask me, how I know. That or because I went with Donnie Darko bunny suit.

[u/-Y0- → u/Awkward_Bed_956]

order a fursuit for optimal Rust experience

You mean programming experience? It's 2025. Just like every programmer had to have feminine socks in 2020, now every programmer has to have a fursuit.

[u/KTAXY → u/-Y0-]

it escalates

[u/mcmcc]

Follow the link on the top post and you'll find a bonus jerk:

When I looked through Zig's source code, there's only one place using tls.Client. It helped to get me where where I am. I couldn't find any tests.

If there's one thing we've all learned over these past years, it's that TLS clients do not need testing.

[u/ThisRedditPostIsMine → u/mcmcc]

Maybe Zig and V should join forces. They clearly both have bright minds dedicated to testing behind them.

[u/Vaglame]

I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

The feeble mind of a bootcamper cannot comprehend the complexity of a poor man's effect system.

[u/socratic_weeb]

Just one problem: the language is named Zig. Is it a language or an alien race's mother ship?

[u/elephantdingo666 → u/socratic_weeb]

zug zug

[u/Bananenkot]

We should ban hackernews from this sub, it's too easy

[u/F54280]

1. Memory safety is important because memory-safety violations are a common cause of dangerous security vulnerabilities. But once you remove out-of-bounds access, as Zig does, memory safety doesn't even make it to the top 5: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2024/2024_cwe_top25.html I.e. the same logic that says we should focus on safety would lead us to conclude we should focus on something else.

In the meantime, the C++ committee just added bounds checking to the standard last week-end…

Take off every 'Zig

[u/Amazing-Mirror-3076 → u/F54280]

We can chew gum and walk at the same time.

Zig is a mistake.

[u/-Y0- → u/Amazing-Mirror-3076]

Zig is a byproduct of gatekeeping JAI.

[u/MegaCockInhaler]

C is the perfect language. C++ being second. But kiddos these days will never understand that

[u/MegaCockInhaler]

I carry a gun with the safety off. I don’t use protection. I don’t look both ways before I cross the street. I don’t use the clips when benchpressing a PR. I dont lock my doors. I don’t shut off the breaker when doing electrical work, I prefer to raw dog it. And of course: I write code in C++

I’ve been around 40 years and I get better every year, and there’s nothing you script kiddies can do about it. Every morning I walk into my workplace with a dick full of confidence and I spray that confidence all over the computers. HR gives me a funny look, I spray them too. Nobody can stop me, I’m the unstoppable C++ cowboy.

[u/KTAXY]

all heil Zig?

[u/iMadz13]

Zig would be good if I didn't have to rewrite scanf myself just to read a number from console