Zig; what I think after months of using it

An opinionated view over Zig programming language: https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025

Author claims that the simplicity of Zig doesn't guarantee the reliability of the software.

I don’t think that simplicity is a good vector of reliable software. At most, it’s a happy side-effect. It’s not a requirement, and should remain a secondary mission. What the industry needs is to identify problems (we have) and designs solutions that solve those problems.

But don't forget that Zig didn't reach 1.0 version yet, it is evolving right now.

To be honest I have never heard people saying that Zig is safer than Rust, it cannot be because of control developer has over memory management and allocations. Overall nice deep dive into the trade-offs of Zig. I would recommend reading this article from the top to the bottom.

Found another interesting resource about Zig lang: Zig Cookbook

If you are using VS Code to write Zig, take a look at this blog post: https://mtlynch.io/notes/zig-vscode-nix/

The release of Zig 0.14.0 has been postponed. The new due date is March 3rd, 2025.
Source: https://ziglang.org/news/0.14.0-delayed/

Another great article from Karl on using switch-case on Strings: Switching on Strings in Zig

Why I like Zig: https://www.nmichaels.org/musings/zig/why/

Another awesome-zig repo: https://github.com/C-BJ/awesome-zig

Zig 0.14.0 has been released: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.14.0/

Release notes: https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html

How pointers dereferencing works in Zig: https://www.openmymind.net/Zig-Dot-Star-Syntax/

Zig's New Asynс I/O from the creator of Zig: https://youtu.be/mdOxIc0HM04?si=XCVN71lf4FzteM9S

The corresponding post from Andrew: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-async-io-text-version.html