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Some Thoughts on Zig

Some Thoughts on Zig — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho.
One of the biggest things Zig has going for it—especially compared to Rust—is that it is (relatively) small. That sits in tension with Rust’s approach to solving memory safety problems, and sets up a nice challenge for future programming language designers.

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