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Re:Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust by dayvster on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:06AM (#45347233)
Uh I'm confused, so you think my take is bad because memory safety should not matter ?
Re:Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust by scoopdewoop on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:15AM (#45347344)
I think its a bad take because "Developers are not Idiots" and "be disciplined" are not good arguments. Its just choosing to ignore the problem rust solves.

I am fine with ignoring the problems that rust solves, but not because I'm smart and disciplined. It just fits my use-case of making fast _non-critical_ software. I don't think we should rewrite security and networking stacks in it.

Re:Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust by dayvster on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:22AM (#45347457)
Then we're sort of in agreement.

I don't think you need the ritual and complexity that rust brings for small and simple scripts and CLI utilities...

Re:Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust by KuSpa on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:58PM (#45349753)
And rust doesn't market itself as small and simple scripting language?

Choose the tool that fits your usecase. You would never bring wasm unity to render a static html file. But if you make a browsergame, you might want to.