After a day of Zig – a review by a Rust enthusiast
I am a big fan of Rust since it provides great tooling and allows me to write code with lots of confidence that it will work reliably. But sometimes I hate it, too. It takes more time to write code in Rust and some things are pretty difficult to prop...
After a day of Zig – a review by a Rust enthusiast launched on December 30, 2023 with 16 votes, #900 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
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This is a blog post by a Rust developer reviewing the Zig programming language after spending a day working with it. Published in late December 2023, the review appears on the author's personal blog and offers a practitioner's perspective on Zig for software developers familiar with Rust. The post evaluates Zig's features and design from the viewpoint of someone experienced with another systems programming language.
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Passionate about software development and architecture, web and cloud technologies, as well as game development. I am a big fan of Rust since it provides great tooling and allows me to write code with lots of confidence that it will work reliably. But sometimes I hate it, too. It takes more time to write code in Rust and some things are pretty difficult to properly implement (looking at you async ). In the last year, I heard a couple of times about a new low-level programming language called Zig. And now I finally found the time to try it out. In this article, I want to talk about the things I liked and disliked about Zig from the perspective of a Rust developer (and the high standards they…from blog.lohr.dev
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