Just published an article about my current thoughts on Zig.

https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/return-to-zig/

"Zig is rising in popularity. It hasn't yet seized the space occupied by even Rust or Go, much less C, but it has been adopted by a few major projects and countless smaller ones. As such, it's becoming an important language for the future. having been interested in Zig for several years, I decided to check back in on the language and see how I feel about it today."

#zig #programming

It seems, #Bun is being rewritten from #zig to #Rust (at least there is an experimental branch, so nothing is decided yet). Comments suggest that the most probable reason of that is that Zig's maintainers do not receive AI assisted contributions and harshly oppose *any* #AI use.
In my opinion, it's their gravest error: Zig is young, pre-1.0, and having this radical anti-AI position will decrease the number of people adopting it even more.
I thought about writing a project in Zig, because to be honest, I like it better than Rust, but now… no.

- switching between #Zig versions, I liked it more than the dedicated anyzig
- #Python venv activation – it's silly but feels so good, and collaborates with uv
- ensuring I have the right language server and formatter for a project, be it #Lua, #TypeScript, and trying out various options for Python
- setting LANG="C.UTF-8" only in the specific project folder because #Ansible refused to work with Polish...

The final boss was getting a really comfortable Tree-sitter setup: get the #Rust CLI, write grammar in #JavaScript, re-generate and run tests on source change as a mise Task. And then I only cloned the repo on another machine and was ready to go!

This post was written as a more cultured outlet for my excitement instead of aggresively committing mise.toml into every repository I touch

It was the talk "How to Build Software From Source" from @andrewrk@mastodon.social where someone taught me what build prefix is. I think that's an example of why hanging around #zig language is so beneficial – it also taught me a lot more about building C and libc than any other tool. Many layers of dirt and rust (pun intended) are washed away and you see the basic systems that were under there all the time.