[voidhorse]

My experience is exactly the same. It deviates just enough in really minor ways that it becomes difficult to write. There's a lot of upfront effort to unlearn all the syntactic patterns that have already been established, the fact that the differences are really small makes it harder, not easier.

I think the language design includes a lot of good justification for these choices, but I worry they might have underestimated the sheer power of habit and historical precedence.

[wredue]

Personally, I do not find that zig differs from other languages all that greatly.

I am actually a little curious about the minor and subtle differences, cause I personally did not find that this was the case coming from C, Java, C#, a little rust, COBOL and NATURAL.

Edit:

I do admit that you need to understand what said other languages are doing in order to accomplish things. No hidden flow definitely increases a bit of the surface area of the code, but if you understood how other languages accomplish the stuff they hide form you, then zig does not feel like it has minor differences.

[anacrolix]

This is my impression too. Rust is drastically different from mainstream languages, so it's worth the jump. Zig is quite close, and I'm not sure it provides enough. I would just use C.