Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0

Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'

Andrew Kelley, inventor and BDFL (benevolent dictator for life) of the Zig programming language, was interviewedby Vitaly Bragilevsky, head of the Rust ecosystem at tool vendor JetBrains.

Zig is a general-purpose language that aims to be as performantas C but with "fewer footguns," in Kelley's words.It is a niche language, at 82 on the latestRedMonk Programming Language Rankings, but well-liked by its users; last year'sStackOverflow survey has Zig as the fourth most admired language, definedas Zig developers who want to continue using the language.

We found the interviewdisjointed, perhaps because of the way it was edited, but nevertheless it toucheson many of the key questions developers face today, including AI, GitHub reliabilityproblems, and programming language choices.

Kelley describes why he created Zig, when other optionsincluding C, C++, Rust, and Go already exist. He...

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