Zig

A low-level systems language that might replace C.

Resources

• Zig's Official guide to learning Zig
• Meet the Zig programming language (HN) (Lobster)
  • Understanding Zig's memory allocation, conditional compilation, interoperability with C/C++

Sites

• Zig's official website
• Zig's GitHub

Links

• When Zig is safer and faster than Rust (Lobster)
  • Problems of the nuanced rules about undefined behaviour in unsafe Rust
  • Zig's advantages: explicit allocation, non-null pointers by default and nicer pointer dereferencing syntax
  • 1.56-1.76x faster than rust probably because of Rust's pointer arithmetic