What about Zig? #19370
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https://thenextweb.com/news/zig-highest-paying-programming-language |
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Never really used Zig, I do wonder how easy is to couple with C codebase and if there are all the necessary libraries that are used by the project. I do believe that more projects with high performant and memory safe languages, like Zig and Rust, could give more traction/visibility to the project itself. Perhaps some PoC on how adding Zig to the build system and some simple calls (some hardcoded log) would be a nice start. |
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I think the author intended to use Zig just as a replacement for our build system (cmake?). |
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indeed the first step would be using Zig as a build system |
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I'm just curious to know if anyone has already looked into Zig and considered the possibility of leveraging its advantages for existing mature C projects like AzerothCore and similar.
In particular, this sounds quite attractive to me:
source: https://ziglang.org/
Especially the part of having a package manager and build system for existing C projects:
source: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
I did not have the chance to look into it in detail myself yet, but it sounds like something with great potential. Big projects like Bun are already using it.
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