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A comparison of rust and zig

For the first 8 or so years of my programming experience, while I was an undergraduate and later graduate student, working in the experimental and later theoretical high energy physics communities, my “go-to” language was C++. This experience led me to the same opinion of C++ as many of its practitioners: I both respect and despise it. Time to spend substantial time learning C++ alternatives.

I have therefore chosen two languages, rust and zig for writing a simple command line utility. The idea was to implement exactly the same utility in both languages, and then judge which I prefer. I began by implementing minimal functionality, later I will expand on it with the “winning” language.

In this blog post I would like to recount some of my experiences.

Read in full here:

https://expandingman.gitlab.io/tvu-compare/

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