For sometime now, I was searching for an alternative for Go. While the language itself is nice and I am productive with it, there are reasons to look elsewhere.
Now stared with Zig.
While working with Go, I thought there could not be simpler thing than this. Installation is smooth, works on every platform and fast. Infact this blog runs on Hugo, which runs on Go. But lately there are data mining and other corporate politics is happening in that space. After all Google!
I was hearing about Zig, but never really looked into it. This weekend finally I got into making something with it. It is not much but a commandline program to get some values and display some values. Took me just few minutes to be productive. Same feeling as in Go but then found the alternative.
Installation is just unzipping a folder and adding that to the system’s path. And we are ready to Zig. It has C and C++ compiler built in, it can compile for another OS from another OS!
Let’s Zig now.