Re:Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
by mtzet on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:53AM
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Well the choices so far seems to be manual memory allocation, RAII or GC. The complexity of C++/Rust indicates that RAII is certainly not a panacea either. GC offers distinct trade-offs as well.
Zig takes a stab at the problem by trying to make manual memory management more ergonomic. I've been pleasantly surprised at how easy I found it to do tasks in Zig I would otherwise have used a scripting language like Python for.
If go's fast GC is taking a stab at C's territory, then I think Zig is taking a stab at the managed runtime's territory. Ultimately the judge is still out.
Zig takes a stab at the problem by trying to make manual memory management more ergonomic. I've been pleasantly surprised at how easy I found it to do tasks in Zig I would otherwise have used a scripting language like Python for.
If go's fast GC is taking a stab at C's territory, then I think Zig is taking a stab at the managed runtime's territory. Ultimately the judge is still out.