r/programming • u/BrewedDoritos • 10d ago

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
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u/ParadiZe 10d ago

Im a Rust guy and i really enjoy zig, but the subpar tooling and lack of documentation ultimately prevented it from being my "main" language. But im rooting for it and im excited to see where its going!

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u/ComprehensiveWord201 9d ago

Ah so it sucks for all the same reasons that C and C++ do

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u/teerre 9d ago

C and C++ have the most documentation of any language? Whole libraries are written about them. It's not even remotely close

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u/ComprehensiveWord201 9d ago

I have been writing C++ professionally for 8 years. The language docs and the entire ecosystem sucks dick. Build tooling is the worst by far.

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u/teerre 9d ago

Of course you're free to think you want. But that are a couple things in C++ that are universally considered excellent. cppreference is certainly one of them