Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

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  1. zig

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

    Whoa, I haven't been keeping up to date about this, there seems to be good related discussion here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7295

    I'll hope for some future news of Zig having vector and complex number support! It will be a great day for fast ray/path tracers :)

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  3. tigerbeetle

    The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

  4. bun

    Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

    I can't answer you why Zig keeps showing up on HN (except for the surface-level answer that people keep submitting and upvoting it) but in terms of not being used in production, the Bun project, a Node/Deno alternative, is seeing a good deal of momentum by the people who like JavaScript a bit too much. It's probably the most widely used Zig project so far, including in production.

    https://bun.sh

  5. ziglings

    Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

    I am interested to learn, how Traits in Rust and Interfaces in Go behave differently from this concept.

    [1] https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings/blob/main/exercises/09...

  6. alg

    Algebra for Zig

    Last year I dabbled in making a DSL like solution for operator overloading: https://github.com/Laremere/alg

    It ends up slightly more verbose in usage, but the statements themselves remain concise. Unfortunately I got a real job that isn't using Zig, so I've stopped working on this. Others can feel free to take up the torch, though.

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