[laxd]

> But before Zig, there was C. For fifty years, C has been the foundation of modern computing.

And for fifty years, language theory has made progress. While C, brilliant as it once was, has given us never ending problems with security and reliability. The software world is saturated anyways. It's time to revise rather than just layering new junk in chase of profit.

> This article does not aim to dismiss Zig. Its focus is on the fact that C never stopped evolving.

It didn't stop but it certainly slowed down to glacial pace. There's plenty of fundamental issues that will never be fixed.

That said. I wish the software world would just keep its cool and not commit to Rust so fast. Rust was the first in a trend of new low level languages. It snowballed and now we may not get to make an informed decision on how the future of low level programming should be. I personally like Zig a lot more. Unfortunately people seem to be neither adequately scared of complexity nor sufficiently impressed by simplicity.