Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I’d like to see Nim get that growth.

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    Zig hasn’t been mentioned yet, so I’m just going to drop that here.

    I personally have enjoyed the meta-programming, the ease of integrating with C libraries, and like that it’s pretty straight-forward to compile.

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      Came here for Zig too. I never programmed anything in it other than hello world stuff. I think the world is waiting for the 1.0 release with complete tooling and package manager and a solid foundation that won’t change too soon. I watched talks from Andrew and what this guy and his team is doing is amazing. It’s a small team.

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      Zig is what I thought Rust would be like when I first heard of Rust. I’d love to try Zig for some hobby things but can’t get it running on OpenBSD (yet!).

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          Oh there is absolutely zero disappointment.

          Years ago I wanted to learn how OpenBSD worked. Some people said to me “ah you want to get into programming at OS level? I was a bit disappointed with Go. But don’t learn C, learn Rust; Rust is the future there”. So as a total novice I looked at all 3 on the page. My impressions were: Go looks easy, C looks a bit harder, Rust looks… way too advanced for a beginner like me.

          Later when I heard of Zig I started reading and it looked a bit more like what I expected a “future C” to look like.

          I wish I had more time and skills to do work in C, Rust and Zig. I’m a Go programmer by trade.

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            Rust forces you to learn and think about the stuff you need to know to be an effective C or C++ programmer.

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            If you know how computers work and what happens behind the scenes, as well as some familiarity with functional languages with strong types Rust makes a lot of sense and isn’t egen hard.

            If you are new to programming or have only done scripting with languages like python then yeah, rust must look like hell.