Four Months of Zig
A developer reflects on four months of using Zig after returning to it from Rust. She praises Zig's explicit allocator and IO parameters, its build system (adopted by Uber for software written in other languages), comptime, and its lean dependency culture, where her projects have one or two direct dependencies and zero indirect ones versus dozens of indirect dependencies in Rust. Incremental compilation via 'zig build --watch -fincremental' currently only works on x86_64 Linux and macOS. She criticizes poor documentation, missing lifetime checks for stack-allocated buffers, lack of compile-time allocators for JSON parsing, and Zig's bootstrapping process that blocks Debian packaging. She still plans to keep using Zig as her go-to language for most projects.
