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Why Zig Over C for Systems Programming

“C is the language of UNIX. The kernels, the C libraries and most of the system libraries that every other language calls in the end are written in C and the man pages describe them with C prototypes and C examples. A C p”

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After I wrote Why Zig Over Rust for Systems Programming, the obvious next question was C. The Rust question was about safety and how much ceremony I was willing to accept for it. The C question is different, because Zig and C want the same things. Both are small languages without a Garbage Collector and both stay close to what the machine does. So this post is not about leaving C for something completely different. It is about the parts of C that cost me time and how Zig deals with them. All the code was compiled o
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