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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Rust: it will take 10 months to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

Zig: it will take 10 days to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

You get to pick one cult. Which one is it?

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

I dunno man... having "no macros" as a selling point?

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Rust: works

Zig: segmentation fault

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So how is Zig different from C or C++, then?

[–] ledtasso@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Much nicer than C, much simpler than C++, much less cruft than both.

[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'd like to point out, the value add of Rust isn't speed, it's safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it's just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.

[–] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Never heard of zig before, thanks

[–] wischi@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Zig isn't even v1 and without any API stability guarantees.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 1 points 11 months ago

It finished even faster when it crashes right?

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Idk I just wrote a simple cli tool in 2 hours in Rust. Complete with arg validation, actually helpful --help output, and parallelisation.