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Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation

The Sourcegraph Podcast

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Zig

Zig has recently moved to being self posted compiled, meaning the compilers written in the language itself. In s there's this weird thing that if you use a signed integer, you overflow is undefined behavior. If you want rapping into your operations, you have to use an explicit operation for that and then you get what you wantbt. That's just an example of the kinds of language decisions that went into zig. Andnd, i would say faster than sea, and i would even say faster than rust.

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