Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?

Re:Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe? by scuff3d on Sunday September 21, 2025 @01:38PM (#45324913)

I disagree. Maybe in syntax it's a bit different but in spirit I think it's absolutely a modern C. Purely procedural code and manually memory managed. On top of that Ginger Bills stated goal for the project is to basically grind down all the rough edges off C.

Plus if you look at something like Zig, it syntactically starts to drift a lot as well. They left behind C's "use matches declaration" approach (thank God), capture groups look like nothing in C, function definitions are entirely different, the list goes on.

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Re:Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe? by Galanwe on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:06AM (#45345360)

I mean, Odin is admittedly vastly different from C in terms of syntax. It's not like you can pick it up knowing C, it feels like a different language.

The author even states that Odin started as a Pascal clone, and was more influenced by Pascal than C.

> The language began as a Pascal clone (with begin and end and more)

> The language borrows heavily from (in order of philosophy and impact): Pascal, C, Go, Oberon-2, Newsqueak, GLSL.

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