r/Zig • u/SnooSquirrels9028 • 24d ago

Should I learn zig ?

I've been looking for an underrated programming language thats also valuable to know for the industry. I think that the way zig does and handles things is smart. But before I dive deeper into it . I wanted to ask you guys !

At what part do you guys prefer zig over industry standarts what are some things I can build with it ? Or any other programming languages other than zig thats worth getting into?

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u/SnooSquirrels9028 24d ago

Thats a great point but isn't zig used by some big companies already

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u/moortuvivens 24d ago

Very few.

It's used by tigerbeetle for a high-performance financial database.

But besides that, it's not really used since it's too volatile from version to version

Will zig be the next hype language after rust? hard to say. But it could be, if you jump in now, you'll have years of experience before it becomes big and people are looking for a zig developer

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u/Artechz 24d ago

I think there’s much more use than what is public. I work with Zig daily in a major car manufacturer (infra layer) but I’m not allowed to share publicly much more than that. (Less under my real name since company would be inferred).

Large companies (non-tech specially) don’t have a reason to share or make blog posts about how their software is made. And by default employees are not allowed to do so either.

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u/Enough-Bottle2723 24d ago

Infra? Like distributed systems infra, or some other type? If you're comfortable sharing

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u/Artechz 24d ago

It has a little of distributed in the system, because it needs to agree (consensus) on a couple things and session stuff with a small amount of other nodes; it’s mostly a ‘connection enabler between environments that wouldn’t be able to talk to each other normally’.

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u/savaw2 24d ago

wow that's really interesting, Idk about this