Loris Cro

Loris Cro from the Zig Foundation discusses Zig's ambition to replace C and its language design features. They compare Zig to Rust and Go and highlight its performance, safety, and interoperability with C. The podcast explores Zig's advantages, challenges, and funding structure. Topics covered include real-time audio processing, strings, 'defer' statement, compile-time string checking, and designing a small and consistent programming language.

Loris Cro from the ZigLang team discusses how Zig can compile C across different architectures, benefiting languages like Python and Rust. They explore improving build processes, dependencies, and Python as an interface to C libraries. Zig's role as a multi-OS build system and its interoperability with C are highlighted, along with creating a static Python interpreter with Zig and using Zig for static site generation.

Loris Cro, VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation, shares his journey from bioinformatics to the world of Zig, a rising star in systems programming. They delve into Zig's fresh approach to simplicity and explicitness, contrasting it with the complexities of C/C++. Loris discusses Zig's memory safety, cross-compilation advantages, and innovative comptime capabilities. He highlights case studies like Bun and TigerBeetle, showcasing Zig's real-world impact and its mission to make systems programming more accessible. A conversation about the future of development awaits!