Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust
Dayvi Schuster 8 min read Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools A deep dive into the practical advantages of Zig over Rust for building command-line interfaces. Introduction So when it comes to memory management there are two terms you really need to know, the stack and the heap. The stack is a region of memory that stores temporary data that is only needed for a short period of time. It operates in a last-in, first-out (LIFO) manner, meaning that the most recently added data is the first to be removed, as the name suggests. Basically imagine a stack of plates, if you wanna remove one plate you remove the top one, remove the middle plate and disaster awaits in this analogy. The stack is typically used for storing…
