[paulasmuth]

All of those points sound fantastic and zig is one of the most interesting things I've seen on HN in a while.

Still I can't help but ask one question: Your points 2 and 3 (build tooling and package management) seem like they would have the biggest, immediate impact for most current c/c++ users.

Did you ever consider separating the build tooling and dependency management effort from the core language?

I, for one, would be extremely interested in sane build tooling and dependency management for c/c++ (and what you describe sounds great). I would give it a try in no time. However, I'd be much more hesitant to consider a new language for a serious project. Even if the language is tip top, I would still be concerned if it is likely too be around and still relevant in X years. I think build tooling has less of a chicken-and-egg problem to adoption because you could always switch to another tool later. And once somebody uses your build system you're already half the way there to using the full thing.