Zig vs Rust in 2026
13 points by jado
13 points by jado
Seems like ad for coding agents
Seems to me like someone giving their honest opinion on how coding agents affect choice of programming language.
In the remaining 5% of cases, not having comptime sucks. The only reliable way to reach an equivalent is through codegen.
not clear what the author means since they don’t mention anything about proc macros
Yeah, I think Zig's comptime is very very neat but Rust's macro system is nothing to sneeze at! A bit of a futzy thing to get right but lots of things are doable.
I do think codegen gets a bit of a bad rap, granted. I've used build.rs scripts to codegen my way through a good number of annoying problems and... well... it gets run nicely! I'm sure I'll regret this stuff later though
Interesting timing given Bun's zig -> rust AI rewrite https://xcancel.com/jarredsumner/status/2053063524826620129#m