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Zig, Rust and other languages (notes.eatonphil.com)
submitted 8 months ago by secana to c/rust
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[–] porgamrer 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A bit tangential, but if the US government really commits to pushing big tech firms to migrate to memory safe languages, where would that leave Zig?

It seems completely implausible to rewrite all the deployed C and C++ in the world any time soon. Even so, the uncertainty created by a top-down push might be enough to stall adoption of an unsafe language.

I just wondered if anyone knows whether that story has affected the plans of the Zig maintainers at all. Or whether there has been any spike in Rust job postings?