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Recently I wrote a significant amount of zig first time in my life thanks to Claude Code. Is zig a mainstream language yet?

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It's not too obscure. It's also about the point where some coding LLMs get weak.

Zig changes a lot. So LLMs reference outdated data, or no data at all, and resort to making a lot of 50% confidence guesses.

Interesting, my experience lerning Zig was that Claude was really bad at the language itself to the point it wrote obvious syntax errors and I had to touch up almost everything.

With Rust OTOH Claude feels like a great teacher.

Syntax and type errors gets instantly picked up by type checker and corrected, and as long as these failures stay in context, LLM doesn’t make those mistakes again. Not something I ever have to pay attention to.

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