Why not Go? Not very comparable due to GC and goroutines?
Zig can (in a lot of situations) presumably easily fill Go's role. Both languages have a focus on simplicity and explicit syntax.
In other words, Zig is in fact a decent alternative to Go. Go just isn't a good alternative to Zig.
Yes, but it was before the invention of mobile phone… Since Java came out, the majority of back-end has been written in memory-safe language, for good reasons.
> you might currently choose to move it bit-by-bit to Go
Not even Google, the home of Go, has been doing a C++ to Go conversion. Backend services that are still in C++ in 2023 are probably so for good reasons, most likely because they either have:
1. really high performance requirements, hence no Go.
2. low budget, and are mostly maintained as it is, hence no rewrite.
In any case, those are only a fraction of the total backend code, which is mostly PHP, Java, and Nodejs.
On the other hand, Zig can fill the niche Go does, but again, probably not best suited for it.
I guess I'm just being pedantic here :).
Besides, is writing compilers and linkers, systems programming?