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		patricius on March 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome Would Zig be considered suitable for application programming? Or for programming a web API over HTTP? Or is it mostly suited for low-level programming?

MaxBarraclough on March 11, 2021 [–]

Zig is, very roughly speaking, competing with the C language. We might say that Zig is to C what Rust is to C++, again, very very roughly.

There's at least one Zig HTTP server framework out there [0] but it's not really what the language is intended for.

[0] https://github.com/frmdstryr/zhp

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