[materielle]

I’m actually not a huge Zig person.

But yes, avoiding arcaneness for the sake of arcaneness will earn you more users.

A big success of Rust has nothing to do with systems programming or the borrow checker.

But just that it brings ML ideas to the masses without having to learn a completely new syntax and fight with idiosyncratic toolchains and design decisions.

[pjmlp]

Or it is another example of younger generations unaware of our computing history, celebrating something that they think is totally new.