Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "A New Era for C and C++? Goodbye, Rust?" video.

I love C, but Zig has captured a new place in my heart. It has protections for common errors developers make. It isn't as memory safe as Rust, but it solves many of the C foot-guns, while also not feeling like you are being restricted by the language, you are free to "override" its protections, but it makes you do so explicitly. In practical idiomatic Zig code, you get most of the protection of Rust, while not fighting against the language or dealing with its complexity. It is still not 1.0 yet and missing a some features, but definitely something to try out and/or keep an eye on if you are a fan of system-level languages. I feel it is to C what, Rust is to C++.
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@RockTo11 I have seen Jai, and it does look interesting, though without trying it, there isn't much that I am too excited about. I definitly plan on learning it when it does get released. Between Zig and Odin, they are both good. I personally prefer Zig for most applications, but Odin is enjoyable to use, there is just a few design patterns that keep it from being "great" to me. I always recommend it to Go devs who are interested in game-development, it is fills the niche perfectly. All that said, don't be torn between any of them, learn them all. I understand you have to somewhat commit to one or another for a certain amount of time to become competent with it, but as someone who used to also feel like I had to choose, I can say that it a self-imposed restriction.
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