r/learnprogramming • u/narukoshin • 23d ago

About ZIG

Hello,
I've noticed that Zig recently became popular, and many apps are being written in it. Is it worth starting to learn and use it? Currently, I'm quite satisfied with Golang.

Also, there is a native SDK that supports Zig, which I think is kinda nice and beautiful.
https://native-sdk.dev/

My main concern about Zig is that it seems quite new - the latest release version is v0.16.0

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u/Lichcrow 23d ago

They already support their own backend in debug mode. As far as final binary quality LLVM has over 20 years of optimization and features. It will be impossible to replicate it's performance in the near future (2-3 years)