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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by 41209 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:46PM (#28790534)
Any good documentation on the language itself ?

This looks like an easier Rust to me.

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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by dralley on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:53PM (#28791274)
It's probably closer to "a more modern, better C" than "an easier Rust".

The core features of Rust are the borrow checker, traits, and algebraic data types, and Zig is missing all of those. On the other hand, Zig has a lot of things that C doesn't have, and a few that Rust doesn't have as well - and some people gravitate towards the C-like simplicity of the language.

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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by pcwalton on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:58PM (#28791326)
I'd say Zig is a more strictly low-level language than Rust, with less safety (it's not memory-safe) and a less sophisticated type system, but with more emphasis on being low-level (malloc is fallible) and with more metaprogramming capabilities.
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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by Zababa on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:28PM (#28791633)
It's not an "easier Rust", as you can't really claim to be Rust without the borrow checker, and you can't really claim to be Zig without the comptime and explicit allocation. They are different language, that took different decisions on how to do things, for different reasons.
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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by lkey on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:50PM (#28791229)
https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

Is a place to get a feel for things. There's also a generated doc set that is similar to rust's, but I just recommend looking at the source if you are curious about something, it's concise and readable. If you have more questions you can pop into irc or the discord, they'll have better resources at the ready.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community

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Re:Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the mus... by pcein on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:56PM (#28791295)
Another good resource: https://zig.news/
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