N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the classic tale of discovering a "weird" language that becomes your new #BFF after a Hacker News post 🖥️🤦♂️. Next, you'll tell us how #Zig is the only language that truly gets you, right after an existential coding crisis. Spoiler alert: it's not the language, it's you. 💡🙃
https://lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html #weirdlanguage #codingcrisis #HackerNews #programming #HackerNews #ngated
https://lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html #weirdlanguage #codingcrisis #HackerNews #programming #HackerNews #ngated
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I saw a post from Andrew Kelley (creator of the language) on Hacker News, about how he reimplemented my Chromaprint algorithm in Zig, and that got me really interested.