Why is Zig so much more successful than Crystal and Nim?

• zig

  812 30,295 10.0 Zig

  General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  

correction: zig does not have a built-in, special hash table. Both ArrayHashMap and HashMap are implemented in the standard library.

• nitter

  950 9,629 6.0 Nim

  Alternative Twitter front-end

Nitter (an alternative front-end of Twitter) is written in Nim: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

• WorkOS

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• invidious-updater

  36 222 0.0 Shell

  Automatic install and update script for Invidious

Invidious (an alternative front-end of YouTube) is written in Crystal: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

• v

  219 35,248 9.9 V

  Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

  

- https://github.com/vlang/v/wiki/V-for-Go-developers - https://vlang.io/compare#go

• v-mode

  89 57 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  🌻 An Emacs major mode for the V programming language.

You can check out V (https://vlang.io/). It's still a pre-v1.0 language but it's built on solid ideas (e.g. Go-like concurrency, Lobster-like memory management). Comparison with Go:

• InfluxDB

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