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The Roc language team rewrote their standard library from Rust to Zig, citing better tools for working in a memory-unsafe environment. The author tested this by building a bytecode interpreter in both unsafe Rust and Zig, finding Zig to be safer, faster, and easier to write. Issues with unsafe Rust include complexity with raw pointers and aliasing rules. Zig, designed for memory-unsafe operations, offers explicit allocation strategies, non-null pointers by default, and better ergonomics for pointers and slices, leading to improved developer experience and performance.

When Zig is safer and faster than Rust

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So Zig is safer than unsafe Rust because the latter’s unsafe leaves the user on their own. Makes sense.

how do i start using zig, i taught my self a lil bit of the syntax, i need a hand tbh

Good article, of course Rust is not for everything, if you use a lot of unsafe with Rust, then that is a sign that Rust is not correct option for that purpose

Some times I find it hard to have interactive guide of the language like Rust, though I completed the zigling and some exercises zig track on exercism but I believe it still lack of detailed guidance on how to apply the language in web dev, cli app, backend,…