zig

Last Sunday I shared on social media my excitement for the first alpha release of the Zig OpenTelemetry SDK! This is the culmination of an investment of my personal time over the past 15 months, and I am so happy that it is finally usable. Why OpenTelemetry for Zig? If you’ve read my previous post about why Zig is great for observability, you already know my point of view on Zig’s suitability for building observability tools. [Read More]

After years of building observability tools and working with various languages, I believe I am i the position to express a strong opinion: Zig is the most suited language for building Observability systems. This is a bold claim, especially in a field dominated mostly by Go (hello OpenTelemetry) and more recently Rust. But after exploring Zig’s design philosophy and capabilities, I have developed a sense of confidence that Zig is the right language and ecosystem for me to build observability tools. [Read More]