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Zig is everything I want C to be

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55 points atomlib | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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up2isomorphism ◴[22 Oct 24 16:57 UTC] No.41916250[source]▶
What is the benefit of changing

int main(void) {

to:

pub fn main() !void {

Except making it looks like a "new" language and requires other people spends 15min to get to used to it？

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1. audunw ◴[22 Oct 24 22:45 UTC] No.41919485[source]▶
If you have a lot of experience with C, and take just a glance at the basics of Zig, I think you’ll understand why each of those changes were made. C doesn’t have very good syntax. Nether for compiler (correctly interpreting the code requires a lot of context), nor code editor, nor for humans.

If you have experience with some modern languages, you’ll definitely understand the syntax. Zig is close to a style of syntax that many newer languages seem to have settled on, and there are good reasons why that style has become prefer.

Why make a new language if you’re not going to make some improvements over the old? Seems like a very weird complaint to me.