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1. ubavic · 1790984791 · focus · HN ↗

   I’ve written software for a living in JS, C, Pascal, and Go, and I’ve tried many, many more languages. After working on a project in Zig for a year, I’m convinced that Zig is the best-designed language I’ve tried so far. Haskell comes close. At least, it’s the best-designed language for humans.

   It’s not for everyone yet. It’s still unstable, and its ecosystem is small. However, both are improving.

   1. dnautics · 1790990248 · focus · HN ↗

      I mean. Zig is a really freaking good language for LLMs (in my hands) too

      1. childintime · 1791014410 · focus · HN ↗

         What LLM? I used claude and it just cracks up on zig 0.16. Terrible.

         1. dnautics · 1791056330 · focus · HN ↗

            Claude. I have several things written in zig:

            - wasm lalign utility (integrated in opengenepool.vidalalabs.com, not obvious how to trigger it but you can inspect the wasm package)

            - real-time DNA gel lane assignment

            - proprietary (Claude also used zig to reverse engineer the usb wire protocol) industrial camera driver

            Last two:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;DNAutics&#x2F;status&#x2F;2099583335940936175?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;DNAutics&#x2F;status&#x2F;2099583335940936175?s=20

            If you want weirder shit:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ityonemo&#x2F;2b4m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ityonemo&#x2F;2b4m

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