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Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

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200 points jorangreef | 1 comments | 27 Aug 20 11:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.552s | source
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Kednicma ◴[27 Aug 20 12:01 UTC] No.24292785[source]▶
I hope that we're not stuck writing piles of low-level code for all eternity. We don't need more than a few pages of each low-level language, and while I do really like Zig's qualities compared to C, I'd still like to minimize the amount of Zig or C total that has to be written.

I think that our community's equivalent of "where's my flying car?" is "where's my higher-level language?"

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1. flohofwoe ◴[27 Aug 20 13:07 UTC] No.24293278[source]▶
Counterpoint: As long as CPU architectures don't radically change, high-level languages which are too far removed from how CPUs and memory currently work don't make a lot of sense as long as performance (or rather energy efficiency) is a concern. And this should be a much bigger concern than the current status quo. The "free lunch" is long over, we cannot rely on the hardware designers anymore to fix our inefficient high-level code.