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Re:Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome by gameswithgo on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:31PM (#26418570)
As a rough high level overview:

Rust is what you might imagine if starting over from scratch with C++, with a big emphasis on memory and type safety.

Zig is more like starting over from scratch with C, with a moderate emphasis on safety (no garbage collection or borrow checker, but undefined behavior handled more sanely than C)

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Re:Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome by k__ on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:58PM (#26418767)
I had the impression Rust was more compatible with C than C++.
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Re:Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome by pcwalton on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @09:49PM (#26419608)
Well, every language is more compatible with C than C++, because C is a subset of C++†. Even C++ is more compatible with C than with C++ compiled with a different compiler :)

† I know it's not a subset, but near enough for our purposes.

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