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Re:Ask HN: Why are a lot of AI projects written in Python? on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:02AM (#33369182)
> Curious that since a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig

Are you referring to personal or professional codebases rewritten in Zig? Personally I haven't seen the Zig language used professionally in 1 company. And my impression from the last discussion about Zig:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549

was that the compiler was still too unstable to be used for real work.

Re:The Zig and Go Programming Showdown on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:57AM (#33368785)
Go handles concurrency via goroutines whereas in Zig... I couldn't find any available information. All it says in their docs "it's an area of active research".
Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:15AM (#33357003)
> Hype driven... you mean Andrew's 100 viewer streams? Or my 30 viewer streams?

More like release notes with 1,000 upvotes on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rl87pr/zig_pro...