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by flohofwoe 1457 days ago
> Zig has neither, and the sad truth is most developers will not make the jump from C and C++ and throw decades of skills out of the window

But that's exactly Zig's killer feature. As a C or C++ developer you don't need to throw your decades of skills out of the window. Instead you can start coding productively in Zig in a weekend. And you don't need to throw away your C (or C++, or Objc) code either, you can just integrate it into your Zig project and it's exceptionally easy to do so.

If that isn't "revolutionary" compared to other, bigger languages which try too hard to be revolutionary but then go on to build out their own little island paradise separated from the rest of the world I don't know ;)

(also if you're looking for an actually revolutionary single feature in Zig, check out how elegantly Zig's comptime feature enables generics and reflection)