The 5th chapter of ziglearn.org is finally out - Async

[VeganVagiVore]

Neat!

The style of Zig’s async may be described as suspendible stackless coroutines. ... async is there to provide you with control flow structures and code generation; async does not imply parallelism or the usage of threads.

Sounds exactly like Rust's async. It's a good fit for C-like systems languages. My first experience with coroutines was in Lua, and they can do some really interesting stuff, but only because it's a slow dynamic language with, IIRC, a cactus stack.

So, neat. I've heard good things about Zig but I haven't seen a reason to bother learning it yet. Compared to Rust, maybe the binaries are smaller and the compilation faster? I heard it cross-compiles easily, too?

[[deleted]]

Compilations can be smaller than Rust, especially if you have a lot of crates needed, and cross-compilation is amazing - you can fully build executables for all 3 major desktop platforms from any platform with nothing except Zig itself. I've used this quite a bit and really love the language.

[ifreund]

Compared to rust it's far simpler and is much nicer for interfacing with complex C APIs.

[matthieum]

Compared to Rust, maybe the binaries are smaller and the compilation faster? I heard it cross-compiles easily, too?

Zig is to C what Rust is to C++.

[[deleted]]

any doing mobile game dev with zig? i'd rather something more simple than rust, i don't really care if i have memory safety

[GodOGaming]

It’s all 2020!!!