u/sohxm7in r/Zig • Recommends
On “Why Did Zig Do This?”
Also apart from answers here is a great video to watch that discusses it Advanced Hello World in Zig - Loris Cro
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Advanced Hello World in Zig - Loris Cro
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- Presented by Loris Cro, VP of Community at Zig Software Foundation
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Programming languagesSystems programmingZigLanguage design and type systemsPerformance and optimization
Loris Cro explains the underlying complexity of a simple Hello World program in Zig and why the language prioritizes explicitness over visual simplicity.
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u/reconcylin r/ProgrammingLanguages • Recommends
On “Remaking C?”
Regarding the complexity of Hello World, you might find this talk interesting. The TL;DR is that Zig is not interested in optimizing for a (visually) simple hello world program. "Look at the O(1) complexity overhead involved in creating a program that prints a single string to the console" might have been a cute way to attack Java in the '90s but I don't find it a very good metric to evaluate the simplicity of modern languages.