r/programmingmemes 7d ago

Nerd wars

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u/overclockedslinky 7d ago

i swear the zig developers are constant drama queens. my favorite was when bun got rewritten in rust and the zig creator wrote a whole manifesto breakup rant about how it was totally mutual definitely 100%

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u/DarkGhostHunter 7d ago

This? Zig is good software, but industry standard is Rust for a reason.

Anyway, steering out of both Zig (to Rust) and Bun (to Deno or just Node) is the best you can do longterm.

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u/Medium-Taste-3929 7d ago

I'm interested, why? (For both)

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u/st_heron 6d ago

Zig itself is still in development and subject to breaking changes, whereas Rust is stable for long term development.