Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation

The Sourcegraph Podcast

How do you improve on C? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language and the founder and president of the Zig Software Foundation, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph and special guest Stephen Gutekanst, software engineer at Sourcegraph, to talk about what it takes to create a new programming language. Along the way, Andrew shares how programmers can get funding for their side projects and hobbies, why conditional compilation exposes philosophical differences between Zig and C, and explains why and how Zig can be faster than both C and Rust.
Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/andrew-kelley/
Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com