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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: 0.348s | 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. kristoff_it ◴[27 Aug 20 13:38 UTC] No.24293542[source]▶
There are situations where precise control over what the machine is doing is very important and a few of the problems that we experience in high-level contexts are caused by the inadequacy of our lower level tools.

Give it a few years and everybody is going to benefit from better implemented "lower-level" applications, thanks to Zig and other languages attempting to do the same.