[AccessD] Zig: A Programming Language

[John Colby]

we're waiting with baited breath.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 12:01 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am long in the tooth and only herald of this language this morning. I'm
> reading its docs as I write this, and was struck by thisL
>
>    1. *Pragmatic*: At the end of the day, all that really matters is
>    whether the language helped you do what you were trying to do better
> than
>    any other language.
>    2. *Optimal*: The most natural way to write a program should result in
>    top-of-the-line runtime performance, equivalent to or better than C. In
>    places where performance is king, the optimal code should be clearly
>    expressible.
>    3. *Safe*: Optimality may be sitting in the driver's seat, but safety is
>    sitting in the passenger's seat, wearing its seatbelt, and asking nicely
>    for the other passengers to do the same.
>    4. *Readable*: Zig prioritizes reading code over writing it. Avoid
>    complicated syntax. Generally there should be a canonical way to do
>    everything.
>
> Has anyone any experience with Zig? I'm up for taking it for a walk.
>
> --
> Arthur
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John W. Colby
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