# Why is Zig so Cool?

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## What Jamie wrote

I love reading about the incredible variety of programming languages. This one sure reads a lot like C but has some really modern takes on the style. Almost looks Pythonic in some ways.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT332: Weekly Thing 332 / Compute, Avatar, Cryptography](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/332/), Briefly

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