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I Will Not Write Rust Again

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  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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The Primeagen discusses a senior engineer's decision to choose Zig over Rust and muses on the future of Zig.

Twitch twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Discord discord.gg/ThePrimeagen Become Backend Dev: boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis Get production ready SQLite with Turso: turso.tech/deeznuts

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What people say. Shared as a discussion on choosing Zig over Rust and the welcoming nature of the Zig community.

u/gm3_222in r/Zig • Recommends

On “Could 2025 be the year of Zig (for me)?”

…The alchemist model fits, or perhaps an inventor working on novel machines. One reason outside the language itself the community culture’s very nice (primarily on discord), approaching ruby levels of welcoming-ness. A non-toxic community is very important to me. Sorry to link to prime, but this video by him is musing on the exact same question: link to this video While this video (longer) had some really nice thoughts on how zig achieves safety without the laborious requirements of rust, i.e. more organically: link to this video…
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u/swe_solo_engineerin r/Zig • Recommends

Senior Software Engineer with Years of Rust Experience Explains Why He's Choosing Zig Over Rust for Everything Excellent points were made here, and I completely agree. I'm choosing Zig for every situation where I would normally choose Rust [video
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