[alpaca128]

A language that promotes itself as simple and with no hidden control flow etc shouldn't need an IDE to find hidden things imho.

But that kind of shortcut seems to be optional.

[int_19h]

"No hidden control flow" is completely orthogonal to "no implicit typing". I think anyone looking at Zig would immediately recognize that it is firmly in the type inference camp by choice.

As far as simplicity, I think their pitch is "simpler than Rust", not in absolute terms. The whole comptime thing is hardly simple in general.

[ablob]

I think it is simple, but not easy to grasp. I might be quibbling over words, but these things are not quite the same in my eyes.

  simple <-> complex
    easy <-> difficult

[chamomeal]

I know this gets shared all the time, but in case anybody in this thread hasn’t seen the rich hickey talk: https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?si=3sa6JRg6Ei1Cf_Wl

[binary132]

I am not a big Zig aficionado but I definitely contrast it in my mind moreso with C and C++ rather than Rust. It definitely aims at being a “better C” sort of language moreso than a “better C++” which Rust seems to be focusing on.

[alpaca128]

Their pitch is "A Simple Language" as seen on the website.