My big problem with Zig is that Andrew Kelley is promising a lot of features, but doesn't really deliver much. Zig still can't proper handle UTF-8 strings [1] in 2022, which is kind of unfortunate, because it's a `requirement`. In a `recent` interview[2], he claims that Zig is faster than C and Rust, but he refers to extremely short benchmarking that has almost no value in the real world.
At least Rust, as blamed and loved as it is, delivered a stable compiler and people started working on the ecosystem (in the first years, most packages were working only on nightly, but at least there were crates available). The ecosystem for zig is insignificant now and a stable release would help the language.
At least Rust, as blamed and loved as it is, delivered a stable compiler and people started working on the ecosystem (in the first years, most packages were working only on nightly, but at least there were crates available). The ecosystem for zig is insignificant now and a stable release would help the language.
[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234 [2] https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/andrew-kelley/