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54:14 · 75K views · Mar 26, 2018
Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, introduces the language at the Recurse Center's Localhost series in 2018. He covers its goals of robustness, optimality and clarity, C interop, cross-compilation and explicit allocators.
HN repeatedly recommends it as the definitive introduction to Zig straight from its author, and links to it whenever Zig's design choices come up.
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This is the introduction to Zig from the language author that I watched when it was first posted here a while ago: this video (good watch)
(and one continuous paragraph harms readability) edit: here's a great talk on zig from the recurse center: this video
I don't know of an 'objective' thorough evaluation of Zig as it stands, but I hope these are of interest: Previous HackerNews discussion on Zig: [LINK] Also, perhaps not as objective as you'd like but still good resources: Whirlwind tour of the basic thinking behind Zig: [LINK] A ~50 minute talk on Zig, by its creator: this video
Looking for more on Zig I found a talk [0] (~1 hour) on the language by Andrew Kelley from just a few months ago. Edit: I see there already questions about Rust in this thread. There's an audience question on Rust in the talk [1] and the creator states that Rust is Zig's biggest competitor. [0] this video [1] this video