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Loris Cro on the Rise of Zig
Why are so many developers suddenly talking about Zig? Is it just another systems language, or is something deeper happening?
Scott sits down with Loris Cro, one of the community voices behind Zig, to explore why this relatively young language is getting so much attention from systems programmers, game developers, and performance-obsessed engineers alike. We dig into Zig’s radical focus on simplicity, explicitness, and control...and why not having features like a garbage collector or hidden magic is actually the point.
Loris explains how Zig approaches memory safety, cross-compilation, and…
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