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I am waiting for Ghostty…
It’s made in Zig with a focus on performance while giving a good set of features.
Look it up!
That’s what I am saying.
To quote you: “they don’t want to rewrite everything” …
Writing Rust often implies major refactoring and it takes so much time to write that your requests go: “pewf” closed due to the amount of effort it takes.
Anyway, been there, done that! Zig is probably the real future; it’s a joy to write, it compiles fast, clear to read, and safe.
It has shared libraries and a proper integration with existing C/CPP code base.
You should try it, that’s an amazing language with a real potential to replace the legacy.
Void.
It all started by curiosity: “let’s try this no-where distros for the lulz”
Then it ended up to be the distro I am using everywhere.
It’s stable and quite on the “bleeding edge” in term of software versions…
And damn it’s fast son!
I went for a blood test two days ago.
The girls came back sprinting with some papers, asking me how it was possible???
I asked calmly what was going on, right? That’s when she said she never saw, in her entire life, such beautiful, elegant, fast and clean blood!
I was like: “darling, that’s because Zig is flowing in my veins, I just can’t stop using it”…
That being said, I totally agree with you.
Exactly!
I find myself coming back to cataclysm dark days ahead, caves of qud, dwarf fortress and other “low graphical” games because of the content.
There is a limit on how long beautiful graphics can keep me playing a boring game.
The day I understood that, I started to pickup games based on content, and gosh I am richer than ever!
Nonetheless, I have plenty of games to play when I feel like it.
The new technology is: show a message saying “Whoaa! You have busted your limit!” on every search.
I didn’t do a search for 6 months, but whhooaaa! Calm down with your searches!
If there were a bunch of people knocking at your door, willing to pay you to work for you, wouldn’t you take the money?
Of course you will. Companies will also.
The real faulty actors here are the innocent people that don’t understand the gimmick.
I’ve been there, I can’t really blame them… I am no better…
Zig is “c”, but modern and safe.
The big selling points compared to Rust are:
- A better syntax
- No hidden control flow
- No hidden memory allocation
- Really great interop with C (it’s almost as if you just include the C code as you would in a C code base…)
- Fast compile time
- it’s more readable
- it’s simpler to learn
The syntax is really close to the C language; any C programmer can pick up Zig really fast.
IMO Zig is a far better choice to go in the kernel than Rust.
Linux has tried to include CPP in it, and it failed.
So imagine if trying to fit in a C-like cousin failed, how far they are to fit an alien language like Rust…
For more information: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/