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[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew Kelley

Zig SHOWTIME · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesCompilers, interpreters & program analysisProgramming language design

What it is

Andrew Kelley's 2024 Zig roadmap talk, followed by a Q&A, covers the language's priorities and the state of the project. Topics include compilation speed, moving off LLVM toward a self-hosted toolchain, async, and the path to 1.0.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as the authoritative source on Zig's direction, especially why async was removed and why the toolchain is changing.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Check out the Q&A in this video to hear it from the man himself, it's the first question”

    Q&A where Andrew Kelley explains why async was removed from Zig.

    TwentyPosts, 2024-02 · Recommendation · in “Asynchronous clean-up”

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Topics: zig, andrew kelley, compiler, llvm, async, roadmap

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