Re:Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consisten...
by girvo on Sunday March 07, 2021 @05:45PM
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Regardless of the particular trade-offs the various languages under discussion are choosing to make, it’s exciting to me that more and more languages are adapting, exposing and using “compile time” systems
> Zig simplifies everything by designing in comptime up front, rather than gradually opening it up with ad hoc rules over 10+ years.
I am not 100% sure that I agree with these characterizations, personally, but they're both valid strategies for sure.