Why is Zig so cool? (News)

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  What up nerds?

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  I'm Jared and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, November 17th, 2025.

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  As a longtime fan of all things Legend of Zelda,

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  I am both excited and terrified of the upcoming live action movie.

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  Today, Nintendo released the first official pictures of Link and Zelda.

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  My first impression?

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  Not bad, but is that Hyrule or Middle Earth?

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  Okay, let's get into this week's news.

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  Why is Zig so cool?

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  Nilo Stolte begins this article all about Zig's cool parts with some seriously high praise.

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  Quote,

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  I can't think of any other language in my 45 years long career that surprised me more than Zig.

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  I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language,

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  but it's a totally new way to write programs, in my opinion.

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  To say it's merely a language to replace C or C++, it's a huge understatement."

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  Nilo enumerates the features that he found most alluring in the language,

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  but he sticks to the simplest ones to keep the article approachable.

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  For him, it all starts with a compiler.

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  quote, probably the most incredible virtue of Zig compiler is its ability to compile C code.

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  This associated with the ability to cross compile code to be run in another architecture different than the machine where it was originally compiled is already something quite different and unique,

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