I'll tell you my experience with Zig. I don't have any. I saw maybe Primagen talking about it and I see your post here. I watched 10 minutes of your vimeo video. I see it has 30k+ stars on github. So now I have to try to understand it in a nutshell.
First like any language, I go to indeed.com and put in "Zig" to see if there are any jobs listed which use it. I don't see any.
Then I click to https://ziglang.org/ and it describes Zig as "robust, optimal and reusable". Well that doesn't really say much of anything.
I read the example listed, which appears to be a test case, and I wonder how the 'try' mechanism works without a 'catch'
> First like any language, I go to indeed.com and put in "Zig" to see if there are any jobs listed which use it. I don't see any.
What does that have to do with anything? Zig is still in beta and they explicitly do not recommend that you use it in production yet unless you're ok with frequent breaking changes. Of course there will be very few jobs (though it's being used by a few notable projects already, including Tigerbeetle - authors of the post we're discussing - and Bun, the JS runtime).
First like any language, I go to indeed.com and put in "Zig" to see if there are any jobs listed which use it. I don't see any.
Then I click to https://ziglang.org/ and it describes Zig as "robust, optimal and reusable". Well that doesn't really say much of anything.
I read the example listed, which appears to be a test case, and I wonder how the 'try' mechanism works without a 'catch'
Then I go to https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/ and see that it says: Robust Behavior is correct even for edge cases such as out of memory.
I wonder how that works, but there are no links to support this claim.
I read a little more then move on.
This isn't to say anything one way or another about Zig, its just my 30 minutes of reading about Zig.