Why Zig over C for Systems Programming

Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by giancarlostoro on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:25AM (#50485819)

It's so damn nice, its a shame it's never taken off the way it could. I think there's still time to make it attractive to companies, but with people's increasing use of AI I don't think anyone even cares what language their model writes in, look at the insane uptick in Rust programming.

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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by vips7L on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#50486028)

I try D almost every year, but I've never really gotten a working IDE environment with it. I'm not sure if it's issues with being on Windows or just the LSP not being that great. I really wish D was adopted as widely as Go.

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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by giancarlostoro on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:43AM (#50486076)

Which IDE are you trying to setup with D? I've not had any issues... You may try DlangIDE possibly?

https://github.com/buggins/dlangide

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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by vips7L on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:53PM (#50488030)

I've tried the intellij plugin and vscode extension. It never seems to work right. I remember there being lots of issues about not finding phobos/the standard library.

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