THE VIDEO SHELF · zig programming language
Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Recurse Center
- Topic
- zig programming language
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 12
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
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komuW on Hacker News · 2018-10
In Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?(and one continuous paragraph harms readability) edit: here's a great talk on zig from the recurse center: [VIDEO]
cellularmitosis on Hacker News · 2019-02
In Zig Is GreatThis is the introduction to Zig from the language author that I watched when it was first posted here a while ago: [VIDEO] (good watch)
lsh on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig
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