The reason why we can often get away with using languages like Python or JavaScript to drive resource-intensive computations, is because under the hood somebody took years to perfect a C implementation of a key procedure and shared it with the world under a permissive license. - Maintain it With Zig / HN / Home

see also

• Zig Toolchain - Zig has its own build system, You define builds with Zig code.
• Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ - arbon exists so that it’s possible to migrate a large C++ code base, like Chrome, from C++ to something saner, incrementally.
  • Zig is designed to interoperate like this with C, and Kotlin with Java. - HN
• My game development journey & why I’m increasing my contribution to Zig to $200/mo
• What’s Zig got that C, Rust and Go don’t have? (with Loris Cro)
  • rust add complexity & prefer safety over performance
  • go toward simplicity, but not in minimalistic way (different way of seeing things). Can reuse C, but not be consumed by C.
  • zig allow low system programming
    • on linux call syscall directly (no need fot clib)
• From Go to Zig
• Why Zig When There is Already C++, D, and Rust?

Zig Interop Overhead Table with Metrics

These are rough per-function call latencies on modern desktop CPUs. Actual values vary based on OS, CPU, type conversion, and data size.