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Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity –  Andrew Kelley

Recurse Center · 75.1K views · 2018-03-26 · 54:14

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Overview

Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, introduces the language at the Recurse Center's Localhost series in 2018. He covers its goals of robustness, optimality and clarity, C interop, cross-compilation and explicit allocators.

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HN repeatedly recommends it as the definitive introduction to Zig straight from its author, and links to it whenever Zig's design choices come up.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 7 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesProgramming language design
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lsh · 2019-12 · Strong recommendation

This is the introduction to Zig from the language author that I watched when it was first posted here a while ago: [VIDEO] (good watch)

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cellularmitosis · 2019-02 · Strong recommendation

(and one continuous paragraph harms readability) edit: here's a great talk on zig from the recurse center: [VIDEO]

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komuW · 2018-10 · Strong recommendation

1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens [LINK] 2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens [LINK] 3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice [LINK] 4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson [LINK] 5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson [LINK] 6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley [VIDEO] 7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike [LINK]

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