P99 CONF: Coding for Speed: Rust vs Zig vs.... JavaScript ???

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What's the best option for coding for speed: Rust? Zig? JavaScript!?! Glauber Costa (Turso) leads a discussion with Carl Lerche (Tokio, AWS) and Jarred Sumner (Bun, Oven) at P99 CONF 2023.

[@10e999]

IMO, Zig is the most exciting and promising language in the space of high-performance programming.

[@CompletelyCovered3]

Jarred was just getting warmed up at the end. The talk favored Rust for the most part, but Jarred is doing great stuff with a pre-v1.0 language.

[@coder415]

priority of rust is safety, priority of zig is extreme performance via allocators cache friendly data structures simd etc... different philosophies different tradeoffs

[@__jan]

Rust's priority is correctness, but it's not prescriptive, that's why unsafe exists. People write extremely performant software in Rust just fine all the time. Custom allocators, cache-friendly data structures, and SIMD - all of that is available.

[@dmitryg1769]

I would really love to see something like Zig's comptime in Rust. Rust attribute macros as compiler time reflection emulation that operate with tokens are total hell

[@r2com641]

Rust is total hell itself

[@PaulSebastianM]

I find it more and more obvious that Rust is the metaphorical C++ successor and Zig is the not so metaphorical C succesor. But with C it's a bit harder to decide for me. There are a number of C replacements that feel equally good.

[@PRIMARYATIAS]

Odin lang and Nim lang.

[@catsby9051]

@@PRIMARYATIAS Nim is not a replacement for C. It uses a garbage collector which immediately disqualifies it.

[@user-mp9um5qj3u]

Yeah in two weeks we learn how to write hello world.

[@0xAtari]

Jarred Sumner is in a different level. Legend!

[@r2com641]

Working with rust is not productive for a project, and its safety is not provided when you code on low level metal layer anyway, so zig all the way ⚡️