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by star-castle 2930 days ago
Reminds me of the fellow that took a year off to create an amazing new version control system. He made svk, which was pretty good except for being followed too closely by git.

However good Zig looks, there's also Nim, ATS, Rust, and a dozen more. Seems like a good time for programming languages -- which means a dangerous time to quit your day job for one.

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realistically, i doubt the author would have trouble finding another job if this doesn’t pan out.
I doubt that the svk guy had that problem either.

His problem was, instead, "I took a year off work to produce a VCS and then saw the throne taken by git. My work has been forgotten and nobody uses it--not even me."

That's the experience of 99.999% of all startups.
Thanks for clarifying, I see what you're saying