[oldpersonintx]

There is no alternative to modernizing C and C++

Indeed I wish they were even more aggressive about breaking changes

Rust is nifty but there is simply too much existing C/C++ out there and "rewrite it in Rust" is not a serious suggestion

Maybe one day we have some cool AI that magically rewrites old C/C++ automatically, but by then I also assume we will have AI-designed languages

Until then, we need C/C++ to be maintained and modernized because we are actually running the world with these languages

[Zambyte]

Thoughts on Zig? Just not popular enough to fit the bill or are there technical reasons?

I bring it up partially because they are not taking a "rewrite it in Zig" approach, they are specifically aiming for incremental migration in mixed C / Zig codebases.

[binary132]

IMO zig is neat but not that much different (for better or for worse) than C and C++. I do really like the comptime concept and wish C had it, and I like it that allocators are explicit in interfaces. There are other things I don’t like about it and I don’t think it has much chance to supplant C or C++.

[pjmlp]

Zig is basically Modula-2 for C afficionados, those of us that are confortable with C++ hardly have any benefit from it, those improvements are also on C++ type system.