[hryx]

I don't speak for Jarred or Andrew, but here is a recent exchange between them about this matter: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14542#issuecomment-141...

The tension is understandable: Zig is explicitly not production-ready, yet it has such attractive performance and productivity properties, and has even proven useful in production scenarios (Bun, Uber, Tigerbeetle). But Andrew's suggestion is correctly aligned with Zig's mission and current level of maturity. If you have a complex project with lots of users like Jarred does, stick with a tagged release for now.

The highest priority of Zig pre-1.0 is to make the language the best it can be — which it will be in due time. The target audience of the master branch is those who can withstand churn and are focused on getting it there.