Can we have a forum for Zig and Rust?
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Times are a changing. Thar be some new kids on the systems programming block. I'm sure everyone has heard of Rust. There's also the new up and coming contender called Zig. Would be cool to have message boards for these, so I don't have to constantly annoy folks in the lounge when learning Zig. :laugh: According to the 2023 [Stack Overflow Developer Survey](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/) Zig isn't that popular yet. And GHE has over 5,000 contributors to Rust while Zig is only at 900. It's still really new. So, I understand if no board would be created for specifically for Zig, but perhaps a general purpose systems programming one that would include any newer systems language like Rust or Zig, perhaps while not forgetting our old friends C/C++? Oh, I should say that Zig has raised [$21.1M](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zig/\_\_oxab30NBZfH3hP1DbTVuRa6IMh3q8Ifq-NlevxsryRA/funding-and-investors) in their latest round of funding. So, it's gonna grow and mature. It's just not there yet. Edit: I was wrong about the funding. Wrong company. Looks like they're doing ok-ish according to their [2024 Financial Report](https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/), but certainly not $21.1M.
Jeremy Falcon
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Times are a changing. Thar be some new kids on the systems programming block. I'm sure everyone has heard of Rust. There's also the new up and coming contender called Zig. Would be cool to have message boards for these, so I don't have to constantly annoy folks in the lounge when learning Zig. :laugh: According to the 2023 [Stack Overflow Developer Survey](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/) Zig isn't that popular yet. And GHE has over 5,000 contributors to Rust while Zig is only at 900. It's still really new. So, I understand if no board would be created for specifically for Zig, but perhaps a general purpose systems programming one that would include any newer systems language like Rust or Zig, perhaps while not forgetting our old friends C/C++? Oh, I should say that Zig has raised [$21.1M](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zig/\_\_oxab30NBZfH3hP1DbTVuRa6IMh3q8Ifq-NlevxsryRA/funding-and-investors) in their latest round of funding. So, it's gonna grow and mature. It's just not there yet. Edit: I was wrong about the funding. Wrong company. Looks like they're doing ok-ish according to their [2024 Financial Report](https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/), but certainly not $21.1M.
Jeremy Falcon
I second this motion. We should have a dedicated board for systems programming.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I second this motion. We should have a dedicated board for systems programming.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Sounds like a good idea. A lot of systems programming is done in C or C++, but the introductory post could state that posts about Rust or Zig are also welcome.
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Sounds like a good idea. A lot of systems programming is done in C or C++, but the introductory post could state that posts about Rust or Zig are also welcome.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Yeah, was worried about the slight ambiguity with the existing C/C++ forum, but maybe if the were partitions into systems programming and I dunno something like Windows (MFC, Win32, etc.) development.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, was worried about the slight ambiguity with the existing C/C++ forum, but maybe if the were partitions into systems programming and I dunno something like Windows (MFC, Win32, etc.) development.
Jeremy Falcon
Not only that, the introductory post would have to caution against C/C++/Rust/Zig flame wars. :laugh:
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