About this episode
Richard talks with Zig Creator Andrew Kelley about the Zig programming language and related concepts.
Richard talks with Zig Creator Andrew Kelley. - Support Zig - https://ziglang.org/zsf/ - Zig's "Writergate" - https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html#Writergate - "What Color is Your Function?" by Robert Nystrom - https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/ - "Asynchrony is not Concurrency" by Loris Cro - https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/ - "Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?" by Daniel Lemire - https://lemire.me/blog/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for-speed-myth-or-reality/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Richard Feldman
Guest: Andrew Kelley
Topics covered
- Zig programming language
- software development
- asynchrony
- data alignment
- programming concepts
Keywords
- Zig
- Andrew Kelley
- programming
- software development
- asynchrony
- data alignment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Zig
Books & works: "What Color is Your Function?", "Asynchrony is not Concurrency", "Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?"
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