What about Zig?

[FrancescoBorzi]

I'm just curious to know if anyone has already looked into Zig and considered the possibility of leveraging its advantages for existing mature C++ projects like AzerothCore and similar.

In particular, this sounds quite attractive to me:

source: https://ziglang.org/

Especially the part of having a package manager and build system for existing C++ projects:

source: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

I did not have the chance to look into it in detail myself yet, but it sounds like something with great potential. Big projects like Bun are already using it.

[FrancescoBorzi]

https://thenextweb.com/news/zig-highest-paying-programming-language

[Xunjin]

Never really used Zig, I do wonder how easy is to couple with C++ codebase and if there are all the necessary libraries that are used by the project.

I do believe that more projects with high performant and memory safe languages, like Zig and Rust, could give more traction/visibility to the project itself.

Perhaps some PoC on how adding Zig to the build system and some simple calls (some hardcoded log) would be a nice start.

[walkline]

I think the author intended to use Zig just as a replacement for our build system (cmake?).
As for mixing C++ and Zig, I don't think it will happen because it's not very convenient.

[FrancescoBorzi]

indeed the first step would be using Zig as a build system