{"slug": "how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig", "title": "How we are going to sell Zig?", "summary": "A Zig community member urges the Zig programming language project to prioritize memory safety before its 1.0 release, warning that competition from Bun and other tools could threaten Zig's future. The member cites the closure of a proposal by Zig creator Andrew Kelley for a memory-safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C as a missed opportunity, arguing that memory management is core to Zig's success.", "body_md": "I know the discussion [New Proposal by Andrew: introduce an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C](https://ziggit.dev/t/new-proposal-by-andrew-introduce-an-actually-memory-safe-unlike-rust-compilation-mode-inspired-by-fil-c/16796)\n is closed, but I would like to come back to it. I found an opinion there that this topic should be postponed and that more “super-duper” features should be added first on the road to 1.0.\n\nSince I am almost 50, I have seen many great projects that ended up with “nothing”. For example, I strongly believed that Julia would become the first-choice language for deep learning. So let me say one thing: the “drama” around Bun should be taken very seriously, because it could be a question of “to be or not to be” for Zig in the near or more distant future.\n\nSo, in my opinion, memory management should be treated as a high-priority topic before 1.0. We live in the real world, and if something is treated as the core of everything — like memory management — then it should also be treated this way by the Zig community. Otherwise, it may be too late.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig", "canonical_source": "https://ziggit.dev/t/how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig/7069#post_13", "published_at": "2026-09-07 08:27:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 08:56:36.512170+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Zig", "Andrew Kelley", "Bun", "Julia", "Fil-C"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-we-are-going-to-sell-zig.jsonld"}}