<story><title>Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more</title><url>https://zigmonthly.org/letters/2021/october/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eggy</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve touched Zig a few times over the last year or so, and I like it, but I am still itching for something else that is not as complex as Rust, but not too close to C. I am now playing with Scala Native[0] just to see how it works on the low-level stuff. Zig is amazing especially since you can use the compiler as an alternative C compiler too[1].&lt;p&gt;I like Lisp and APL, so I have been learning April[2], a subset of APL in Lisp. It is very cool, if you like Lisp and APL. The game in Zig in the article reminds me of the Dyalog APL simulation of a boat navigation app developed in Finland using APL[3].&lt;p&gt;[0]  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;scala-native&amp;#x2F;scala-native&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;scala-native&amp;#x2F;scala-native&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;andrewkelley.me&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;andrewkelley.me&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;phantomics&amp;#x2F;april&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;phantomics&amp;#x2F;april&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dyalog.com&amp;#x2F;case-studies&amp;#x2F;simulation.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dyalog.com&amp;#x2F;case-studies&amp;#x2F;simulation.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more</title><url>https://zigmonthly.org/letters/2021/october/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kitd</author><text>I played with Zig recently and loved it. The right tools at the right level with the right degree of utility.&lt;p&gt;It was very frustrating getting started though as just about anything Zig-related online you read&amp;#x2F;download&amp;#x2F;run is out-of-date with the latest version of the language. Small breaking changes go in that can easily stump a newbie like me, and there&amp;#x27;s not enough online experience of catching similar errors that give guidance.&lt;p&gt;IMHO I really hope the language stabilises soon. Otherwise it will be a frustrating experience.</text></comment>