[flohofwoe]

> zig team/community has been aggressively marketing this language

...I think the only thing that's aggressively marketed is that the Zig team isn't afraid of big and controversial breaking changes ;) If you can't handle that, then Zig currently isn't right for you, it's as simple as that.

> They could, for example, have versioned stdlib and then maybe all I need to is pin my stdlib version.

That really only makes sense for after 1.0, and even after that only for stdlib APIs that are out of the experimental phase.

But post 1.x some sort of migration support for breaking changes would indeed be much more useful than trying to prevent breaking changes at all cost.

> and I am reminded again why I would never choose this language.

...then why even write such a lengthy comment? Just ignore Zig and move on... it's not like there's plenty of other languages which might better fit your taste.

[throwawaymaths]

anyways downloads of older versions are generally available!! like this whole bootstrapping freakout is weird. and anyways its funny to say the wasm build thing is a hack versus building with c. have you seen cmake? that whole thing is a hack.