[audunw]

I do get the feeling, but I think part of it is simply that those of us that are used to C tend to underestimate its complexity. Especially when you consider various extensions which are widely used, the preprocessor magic often needed to perform essential tasks, and all the undefined behaviour.

There is really only one thing that I would say goes beyond keeping the language simple as possible: the async stuff. But I think it will probably be totally worth it. The async implementation looks a lot more elegant than anything I've seen so far, and it could be extremely useful in the embedded world, which is one of the places where C is dominant. It might make the language a bit more complicated, but it will make the resulting code much more simpler for a lot of applications, without compromising other goals like safety and efficiency.

Zig is still much, much closer to C than C++. If you don't think so, then you're vastly underestimating the complexity of C++.