> A good language is not a language set in stone, a good language is a language that doesn't make me feel like i have to suffer because they made a stupid decision years ago and they refuse to make it better
It depends. Low level coding the like of which zig is tailored to tends to involve a lot "write and forget about it" infrastructure stuff. At least that's my use case.
It sucks to painfully go over that cryptographic hash, that codec or that compressing algorithm you wrote 15 years ago and still works flawlessly because it wouldn't compile with the modern version of the language.
I think zig is very nice but I wouldn't use it even for my personal projects because it's still unstable (and from my POV it will remain that way for at least 5-10 years).
C is terrible but it's not sufficiently terrible that I would use a language that is orders of magnitudes less popular and still in its infancy. Too risky.
It depends. Low level coding the like of which zig is tailored to tends to involve a lot "write and forget about it" infrastructure stuff. At least that's my use case.
It sucks to painfully go over that cryptographic hash, that codec or that compressing algorithm you wrote 15 years ago and still works flawlessly because it wouldn't compile with the modern version of the language.
I think zig is very nice but I wouldn't use it even for my personal projects because it's still unstable (and from my POV it will remain that way for at least 5-10 years).
C is terrible but it's not sufficiently terrible that I would use a language that is orders of magnitudes less popular and still in its infancy. Too risky.