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Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by uaksom on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:48PM (#48939374)
> I invite you to read the release notes and see for yourself the types of breaking changes we’re talking about.

I did, and I immediately found this in the latest release: https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html#IO-as...

That seems like it would require changing a lot of code. Calling it "production ready" is dishonest at best

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Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by drdexebtjl on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:00PM (#48940844)
Not really. It’s find and replace work.

If by production-ready you mean you can forever avoid changing code you wrote 8 months ago, sure, pick something else.

To me production-ready means it can be trusted to power production workloads, has all tooling I need, and has a consistent long-term vision. Zig ticks all the boxes.

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Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by uaksom on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:06PM (#48941465)
Changing core features every few months doesn't seem very consistent...
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