How Zig is used at Uber - Motiejus Jakštys

[@_orangutan]

Such a great talk.
As more talks are given, the more I realize what a great choice it was to pick up and invest time on Zig at the start of this year. The alternative was Rust. Keep up the great work devs.

[@daniellevymoreno1141]

Keeping a close watch at Zig, really agree with it's design principles. I am actually waiting for WASM backend support to do the jump into learning it, for now sticking to rust.

[@KManAbout]

@@daniellevymoreno1141 I just started learning it. I learned go before that sort of. I like zig so far

[@kyonas6047]

@@daniellevymoreno1141 now zig can do wasm go ham

[@sporefergieboy10]

lmao 250$ reward from Google they may as well give nothing

[@Mglunafh]

That was a sweet talk! Such a pleasure to hear the genuine stories, thanks to Motiejus for presenting!

[@Herdogan80]

Great to hear that story.

[@FrankHarwald]

Does this mean zig-cc can also compile C++ natively? If so: huge respect! that's incredibly difficult to achieve - even if reusing LLVM Clang C++ frontend!

[@guillaumewenzek4210]

Pretty cool that you managed to get some sponsorship from Uber.

[@abanoubha]

good to see Zig reaching production 💚

[@Pic14Kk]

Deploying Zig to production on friday xDDDDD

[@_slier]

so when to sponsor zig then?

[@saulius2]

Puikiai!

[@gokukakarot6323]

Its great to see, how stupid complicated systems are born. Create a monorepo lol. Now I will never ever think of applying to this place.

[@bdnugget]

Whooooo! Ziggers unite!

[@ko-Daegu]

is this how uber info got hacked multiple times ?

[@TANRININresulu]

Only because of THE GOD willed it that way

[@r2com641]

God sent Zig to earth

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

Zig vs Rust vs Golang vs C++

[@pau1976]

I think Zig is meant to compete with C, and Rust with C++

[@NathanHedglin]

Go doesn't really fit.

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

Add carbon as well to this

[@109Rage]

@@NathanHedglin Go WANTED to replace C++ in some areas, with how it was advertised as a "systems programming language", but it mostly ended up competing with Python and Java instead. (and arguably some server-side Javascript stuff)

[@andrewTaylorCodes]

@@109Rage I agree. I generally see Go used in backend web apps competing with NodeJS / Deno. Go seems to be heavily used in DevOps and Kubernetes tooling. Every now and then I run across some new CLI application written in Go, but generally Rust seems to be the language of choice in that area.