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Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig

We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here’s what we learned building a browser with it.

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This was a nice read about the pros of Zig over any of the other system languages. I liked that the author summarised and justified his decision without being dismissive or being overly smitten with his choice. Practicality matters and in this situation, his decision was/is right.

PS: I’m looking forward to messing with Zig in the future!

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alvinkatojr

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Roger that, Aston, will do. It might take me a while though to get to it, there’s a long line of languages asking for my attention :wink:

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