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Re:Zig: What to Expect from Release Month by dns_snek on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:17AM (#42738399)
Most of my work is in higher level languages and I never liked C due to its many quirks and footguns which made me think that I just didn't enjoy low level programming.

I learned that I was wrong when I spent some time hacking around lower level programming with Zig and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It just clicks for me in ways that C and C++ never did.

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Re:Zig: What to Expect from Release Month by pjmlp on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:20PM (#42742195)
I was fortunate to have learnt low level programming via various BASIC, and Turbo Pascal, alongside Z80 and 8086 Assembly, that C was never special to me, other than being more cross-platform due to the way it came to be.

Luckily around the same time I also got hold of Turbo C++ 1.0, and Borland's Pascal / C++ tag team is what kept me interested.

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