Andrew Kelley quit his job in 2018 to build a programming language. Eight years later, Zig powers Ghostty, TigerBeetle and Uber's cross-compilation. It's top...

Andrew Kelley quit his job in 2018 to build a programming language. Eight years later, Zig powers Ghostty, TigerBeetle and Uber’s cross-compilation. It’s top 5 most admired on Stack Overflow. There’s just one thing missing: 1.0. Andrew Kelley explains why.

Vitaly talked to Andrew about:

  • Why Zig has no 1.0 after a decade, and why that’s deliberate
  • Why Zig left GitHub
  • Why Zig banned AI from Zig
  • What makes Zig better than C (and why every other C replacement failed)
  • Andrew’s take on Open Source

It’s a long interview, but I found it very interesting and worth it.

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    All it takes is one internet search with the words “zig style guide” to find countless examples to pull from online.

    “Countless”? You should be able to find, say three style guides that talk about how to prevent memory errors then right? Because my one search didn’t find any.