Zig; what I think after months of using it

1. zig

   1 869 38,110 10.0 Zig

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

   

   The duck typing argument is absolutely not based on minimal or missing documentation. There wouldn't be countless issues about it in the Zig repository if it were that simple. See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17198

   I'm simply going to quote one of the comments from the linked GitHub issue:

   > generic code is hard. Hard to implement correctly, hard to test, hard to use, hard to reason about. But, for better or worse, Zig has generics. That is something that cannot be ignored. The presence of generic capabilities means that generic code will be written; most of the std relies on generic code.

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3. roc

   2 26 4,872 10.0 Rust

   A fast, friendly, functional language.

   

   See also: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/www/content/faq.md...

   Zig is not entirely unsafe. It provides quite a few compile time checks and primitives to catch memory leaks or prevent them altogether.

4. bevy

   3 594 38,607 10.0 Rust

   A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

   

5. hurl

   4 61 14,311 9.9 Rust

   Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

   

   I maintain a Rust project that is ~50,000 loc [1]. I've never felt that compiling is slow, in the contrary it's always a pleasure to see how fast the project compiles (at least in debug).

   In release, build time is longer but in this case, it's in the CI/CD so it doesn't bother me. We try to be very conservative with adding dependencies so it may help compilation time. Also I'm coming from a Java/Kotlin world so a lot of things appear like fresh air in comparison...

   [1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

6. tokio

   5 219 28,182 9.5 Rust

   A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

   

   There's compiler-level traits like `Iterator` and `Future` which enforce references. If wanting to do intrusive pointers into them, one risks creating overlapping references: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/3399

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