Zig is hard but worth it

I like Zig as a concept, but every time I've tried it, the toolchain lacked good IDE and debugger support. I've tried some plugins half a year ago but they either didn't work reliably or they missed important features. I'm personally sticking with Rust until the day comes that I can just add a VSCode/Clion plugin that'll give me an interactive debugger with full autocomplete support without fiddling around too much.

There's a lot to like with Zig, despite its unconvential syntax and some language decisions I personally disagree with. The language is still in development but it's very promising and I'll definitely try to learn it before it reaches that magical 1.0 release.

I've definitely had a good experience writing Zig in VS Code with the CodeLLDB extension on Linux [0] and the Microsoft C++ [1] one on Windows. It's also got the Zig extension which comes with the Zig language server [2].

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vadimcn.... [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod... [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ziglang....