Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
by aidenn0 on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:41AM
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That's interesting because the people I've seen that are part of the zig foundation all have some sort of web-adjacent background; I know Andrew has mentioned working at OKCupid, and the author of this post worked at Redis.
To some degree, this is probably just because that's where the money is (A quick look at Andrew's blog shows lots of non-web stuff for personal projects prior to Zig), but the gravity of a day-job is fairly strong.
I'm a systems programmer by day, but my github profile indicates mostly web and common-lisp related things; I definitely look at my tools through that lens. The fact that I can get assembly-level profiling of my common lisp code is one of the things that keeps me on lisp vs. other dynamic languages.
For all the above reasons (and of course the obvious ones as well), it's a very positive sign for Zig that Andrew's day-job now is working on Zig. As a systems programmer, I do find it exciting, though I lack the time to spend on it currently (my first foray ran into a compiler bug after having written less than 100 LoC, which may have been coincidental, but certainly discouraged me from spending more time with it).
To some degree, this is probably just because that's where the money is (A quick look at Andrew's blog shows lots of non-web stuff for personal projects prior to Zig), but the gravity of a day-job is fairly strong.
I'm a systems programmer by day, but my github profile indicates mostly web and common-lisp related things; I definitely look at my tools through that lens. The fact that I can get assembly-level profiling of my common lisp code is one of the things that keeps me on lisp vs. other dynamic languages.
For all the above reasons (and of course the obvious ones as well), it's a very positive sign for Zig that Andrew's day-job now is working on Zig. As a systems programmer, I do find it exciting, though I lack the time to spend on it currently (my first foray ran into a compiler bug after having written less than 100 LoC, which may have been coincidental, but certainly discouraged me from spending more time with it).