In my short golang career I’ve never dealt with libraries doing bindings to other native binaries but it makes complete sense, as the c ecosystem is a goldmine of libraries that were developed for 10s of years.
Indeed, the zig build system and compiler is truly an amazing effort in addressing such an old issue that everyone had to deal separately in each ecosystem. I used zig build system when just it just got released and it was already working pretty well with x86_64 and apple silicon, I can guess it’s only getting better now.
) and still don’t have sum types (C tagged unions / Rust enums) and no pattern-matching.