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Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn’t: Staying Simple: Revision history

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17 November 2025

  • curprev 15:1415:14, 17 November 2025 PC talk contribs 6,450 bytes +6,450 Created page with "The Hook The first time I wrote Zig code, I laughed out loud. Not because it was funny — but because I couldn’t believe something this… quiet still existed in modern programming. No macros yelling at me. No borrow checker existential crises. Just me, a function, and a compiler that didn’t feel like a disappointed parent. After years of wrestling Rust — the language that promised to save us all from C but somehow turned into a personality test — Zig felt li..."