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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: 0s | source
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lokl ◴[27 Aug 20 13:21 UTC] No.24293396[source]▶
Zig is appealing to me, but I wonder whether time spent mastering Zig would be better spent mastering C.
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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[27 Aug 20 13:51 UTC] No.24293667[source]▶
Realistically a $$ career doing embedded or systems-level work will require excellent C and C++, and Zig (or Rust) would just be icing on top if you could find an employer willing to pay you to work in it.

The good thing is that mastering one of these languages gives you conceptual tools which help with becoming at least competent in the others, if not mastering them as well.