Zig's Andrew Kelley: "The compiler is too dam slow, that's why we have bugs..."

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 29 January 2024 at 20:51:19 UTC, Don Allen wrote:

> Every time I've checked in with Zig (it's been three or four 
> years) and tried to use it, I run into a serious problem with 
> the compiler. Zig is not good enough yet for production work, 
> nor do they claim to be, simply based on the version number 
> with the leading zero.

Yeah, I tried it a while back, but it didn't last long. It seemed 
like a nice community and the language sounds like it has good 
ideas. I felt as if they hid the "not ready for any serious use". 
This is in contrast to D, which around the time I started using 
it, any story would have false comments about compiler bugs. I've 
hit more bugs in gcc than in dmd in that time.

While a faster compiler might help, my impression was that they 
made a strategic error by trying to do too much, and that meant 
there was no small core of features you could count on to be 
reliable. It's been quite a while, so that may not be true in 
2024.