Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity –  Andrew Kelley

1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens [LINK] 2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens [LINK] 3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice [LINK] 4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson [LINK] 5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson [LINK] 6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley [VIDEO] 7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike [LINK]

(and one continuous paragraph harms readability) edit: here's a great talk on zig from the recurse center: [VIDEO]

This is the introduction to Zig from the language author that I watched when it was first posted here a while ago: [VIDEO] (good watch)

Zig is really interesting, and the explicit allocators is a feature I miss in many other system languages (like Rust). Presentation by the Zig author is a good introduction to the concept [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] [VIDEO] [1] [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: [VIDEO]

The Zig language has a great premise, it's worth reading the above link or watching a bit of this video [VIDEO] just to question our assumptions that certain language features need exist at all.

> I think there's room for other languages to occupy a similar space but they're need to focus on no-std-lib no-runtime operation (not always the sexiest target). You're describing the Zig language! It aims to be as fast as C, and unlike most languages that say this is a goal, it means it. There's no "almost as fast as C if you ignore the garbage-collector and the array-bounds-checking", it's actually as fast as C. Its author values the minimalism of C, but wants to create a far better language for doing that sort of work. [0] They're doing surprisingly well. They even managed to make a faster-than-C (faster even than hand-tuned assembly) SHA-2 [1] [0] [LINK] , [LINK] [1] [LINK] , it's also mentioned somewhere in this talk [VIDEO]