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is there any benefit from using zig in this project

i see that Pharo is implemented 99.5% in smalltalk, which seem like a more reasonable target, implementing a language in itself is usually desirable

or is zig used just to bootstrap this implementation, and if so, how will this be better than Pharo

Zag is 66% Smalltalk and 33% Zig (approx.).

[~/ghq/github.com/dvmason/Zag-Smalltalk]$ cloc .

Language files blank comment code

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Smalltalk 306 4483 2203 18669

Zig 46 137 1000 10959

Smalltalk aside, how safer makes you feel Zig than C?

It provides proper strings, arrays that don't decay into pointers, strong typed enumerations, and no need to do sizeof math for heap allocations,

That alone is something C failed to improve in 50 years of history, features already provided by other languages of similar vintage and older.

If Zig manages to take a few developers away from C, that is already a win.

i am a big fan of zig, i am just wondering, how does a zig implementation improve on a smalltalk implementation