https://besok.github.io/tags/systems-programming/ Recent content in Systems-Programming on besok Hugo en-us Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/ <h1 id="what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust">What Zig felt like, coming from Rust</h1> <h2 id="intro">Intro</h2> <p>I&rsquo;ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I&rsquo;d like to think I&rsquo;ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional side of Rust like clean functions, expressive types, that sort of thing. But I&rsquo;m always curious about other languages, and Zig has been on my radar for a while as a candidate C successor: lower-level, lighter-weight, and steadily earning its place among the languages people take seriously. I spent time with C earlier in my career, so the comparison always felt like it would be interesting to make.</p>