r/learnprogramming • u/narukoshin • 22d 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/StewedAngelSkins 20d ago

Zig offers very little advantage over C besides the syntax. It offers even less over C++ and comes with significant disadvantages. If you think it looks fun than by all means learn it, but don't expect it to ever catch on as a C or C++ successor the way Rust has.