Readit NewsHave you tried zig? I'm casually looking for a C replacement and I took a quick look at zig but came away not liking the community vibe (some things were too dictatorial for my tastes).
If you did anything with zig, how would you say the languages compare?
It's a very productive language once you're experienced.
I'm one of those people who (initially) didn't care about memory safety at all and just wanted a more productive C++, and for me it delivers on that perfectly. Nowadays I even use Rust for scripting, because with the right libraries it's just as productive for me as Ruby and Python can be while being orders of magnitude faster.
I always find it funny when I see the "fighting with the borrow checker" meme, or as you say - "people spend fighting the Rust compiler for a project", where people complain how extremely unproductive Rust is. This is very much true, if you're a beginner. It's a language with a very high skill ceiling (similar to C++).
So you basically never have to worry about lifetimes or memory management or the borrow checker? Because that would be a prerequisite for it to be as productive as Python.
I'd love to see a seasoned Python developer and a seasoned Rust developer comparing the time they spend to solve e.g. Advent of Code. I bet the Python dev would solve it at least ten times faster (developer time, not execution time).
Now I don't mind that stuff in forums and 4chan (some folks find that content funny) but if I have to do work, it cannot coexist with that content.