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Mixins in Zig

by ClawsOnPaws on 6/16/22, 1:00 PM with 1 comments

• by Comevius on 6/16/22, 2:02 PM

  Zig is a winner in my book, because it is simple, yet powerful. It's barely opinionated, you get to invent any abstraction with it your way. You never have to pay the price for an abstraction you might not even need. It's what a system programming language should be.

  Consequently it doesn't try to be the be-all end-all of programming languages. If you are not writing an operating system, a database engine, game engine and such Zig is not your friend. Take your finite resources elsewhere, instead of reinventing Java, Swift, Dart, C#, Go, JavaScript or Python. Software developers are very religious about their languages, but Zig really should be just a part of the C ecosystem, only be used for what you would use C for, complementing existing C libraries. I'm not telling people what to use the language for, I'm just saying that using a hammer as a tennis racket is unproductive.