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Zig: Unleashing Compile-Time Optimization Power

2025-06-07

This article delves into program optimization, particularly the role of low-level languages. The author argues that while high-level languages offer convenience, they lack the 'intent' expressiveness of low-level languages, limiting compiler optimization potential. Zig, with its verbosity and powerful compile-time execution (comptime), allows developers to convey their intent more precisely to the compiler, resulting in superior code generation, even rivaling assembly-level optimizations. The article uses string comparison as an example, demonstrating how Zig's comptime leverages compile-time information to generate efficient assembly code. It compares this to other languages' macros or templates, concluding that Zig's comptime mechanism is clean, efficient, and easy to use, making it a powerful tool for writing high-performance programs.

Learning C3: A Real-Time Account of My Experience

2025-05-29

This article documents the author's real-time experience learning the C3 programming language. C3 aims to improve upon C by adding modern features such as a module system, operator overloading, and generics. The author explores various aspects of C3, including foreach loops, the defer keyword, structs, error handling, contract programming, and macros, culminating in building a basic calculator. While praising features like foreach loops, defer, and the error handling system, the author also notes shortcomings such as the incomplete package management and language server support. Overall, the author views C3 as a promising language still under development.