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Andrew Kelley
KindPerson
Born—
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Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceziglang.org ↗

Created Zig — C without the hidden control flow — and made the compiler a build system too.

Created Zig

Created Zig (2016) — 'a better C' — and runs the Zig Software Foundation on donations, a model for sustainable independent language development.\n\nThe 'no hidden control flow' creed is his answer to C++ and Rust's complexity.

Sources

  1. ziglang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_(programming_language)