Zig, the Small Language

1. zig

   1 876 38,875 10.0 Zig

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

   

   I tried Zig recently but I found the unsilenceable lints to be a huge productivity killer. I actually posted a link to the GitHub issue this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32751317

   This makes a normal workflow with `watchexec zig test` basically impossible since before I can even run the tests I have to spend time hunting down which variables are used/unused at the moment and (un)commenting them. And it seems like they're planning to double down on this by making you adjust even more trivial things like public/private and var/const before it will even compile your code. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224

   Maybe I'm a bad developer, but my code is never perfect the first time around. I always spend time experimenting and refining my designs. I want to find a design that works, and only then spend time polishing and prettifying before I git push.

   I do understand the reasoning (they don't want people committing poor quality code), but this implementation just seems completely backwards to me. It breaks the natural order. It's like saying we won't let you ctrl+s until your tests pass to make sure you don't commit poor quality code. Stop nannying me and just let me get my work done!

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. go-tools

   2 19 6,410 8.1 Go

   Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

   

   This really irritated me when I started working with go, but it stopped bothering me and now I even mostly like it.

   The missing error checks are annoying, but if you have appropriate editor config it is hard to miss them: https://cdn.billmill.org/static/newsyctmp/warning.png

   Basically writing go without `staticcheck`[1] is not recommended. If you do have it set up, it's pretty easy to avoid simple errors like that.

   [1]: https://staticcheck.io/

4. tenet

   3 1 17 10.0 Zig

   Automatic differentiation prototype in Zig (by christopher-hesse)

   

   For operator overloading you can do something like this: https://github.com/christopher-hesse/tenet#interesting-featu...

   You have to specify the names more times but you can also do any syntax you want.

5. zig-gamedev

   4 55 2,555 9.2 Zig

   Dev repo for @zig-gamedev libs and sample applications

   

   Temporal safety can actually be provided via tagged index handles (where the tag is a generation count). But this should be implemented by libraries, not built into the language (like: https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev/tree/main/libs/zpool)

6. capy

   5 7 2,098 8.2 Zig

   💻Build one codebase and get native UI on Windows, Linux and Web

   

   The fanaticism of Rust devs makes me think it's probably massively overrated (see Node yesterday and Ruby/Rails the day before) and Go is associated by Google which gets a perhaps unfair but still unignorable knee-jerk reaction from me to avoid it.

   I don't know enough about Nim to pass judgment.

   Two reasons I decided to give Zig a try: The official chat channel is on IRC, instead of Discord or Slack (so the people involved care about efficiency, open standards, and avoiding trends/bandwagoning), and it has an early but promising-looking Swift UI-like cross-platform UI framework in development: https://github.com/capy-ui/capy

7. mopa

   6 1 114 10.0 Rust

   MOPA: My Own Personal Any. A macro to implement all the `Any` methods on your own trait.

   

   To add to that, I think the vulnerability is actually caused by unsafe code too:

   https://github.com/chris-morgan/mopa/issues/13

8. iced

   7 177 26,499 9.8 Rust

   A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. rust

    8 2,825 103,269 10.0 Rust

    Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

    

    > Maybe it would be called #[expect(deprecated)]

    Both this and the reply saying you should open an RFC worry me that it was tongue-in-cheek.

    Or maybe it's the obvious name choice, heh, because it literally exists with that very syntax: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...

    Not stable yet, as you can see, but all the RFC and implementation work has been done, and a stabilization report was even put forward back in July: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54503#issuecomment-...

11. neon

    9 20 8,228 8.4 Rust

    Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules. (by neon-bindings)

    

    > rust is not well-suited for interfacing with FFI

    How so? Packages like neon [1] and rustler [2] suggest otherwise. I'm using both of those in a real product (I'm using neon directly, to write native modules for an Electron app; on the back-end, I depend on an Elixir package that uses rustler).

    [1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

    [2]: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

12. diem

    10 15 16,696 0.0 Rust

    Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.

    

13. cryptography

    11 70 7,012 9.9 Python

    cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

    

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