Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig

Re:Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig by KingOfCoders on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:38AM (#47958993)

Im with you on Go and SQLite, dropped Postgres for many of my projects, I might add: HTMX instead of a TS frontend, very few apps need a TS/React/... frontend. Doubling development effort with minimal gain (except games etc.)

Dabbled with Rust some years ago, I think it is an excellent choice for sudo-rs and such but for GUI and web apps I (perhaps too stupid) end up with arcmutex soup.

https://www.radicalsimpli.city

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Re:Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig by i_think_so on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:45AM (#47972224)

The sentiment on that page speaks to my soul. But I wonder how relevant it still is, just a few years later, in the age of AI tools?

Certainly replacing a microservices morass with a single bare metal server running a single static go binary makes good fiscally responsible sense for a startup/MVP. But how does a CTO make the case that "we don't need React" when the developer can just get Claude to smack the React app around with a trout until it does what you want?

Basecamp may have done it but I get the feeling that's a major outlier.

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Re:Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig by KingOfCoders on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:51AM (#48006511)

I do think more relevant than before, Claude has less trouble running a modulith with HTMX than keeping everything in sync. I still run into context window problems on company code bases. When the 1M windows is 50% full Claude degenerates for me visibly. When this is no longer an issue, I would agree that we no longer need to care.

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