[pjmlp]

Other than comptime, it doesn't bring anything new to the 21st century.

Its safety story is basically what Modula-2 (1978) and Object Pascal (1986) already had, but now it gets done with curly brackets instead of a begin/end language.

UAF is an issue, and the tooling to tackle this issue is exactly the same that C and C++ have available for the last 30 years, give it or take it.

It will be another language to talk about, however I doubt it will ever make it into mainstream, like having platfrom vendors and console Devkits care that Zig exists.

[Mond_]

Eh? As far as I can tell Zig already has more traction than e.g. D, which is listed.

I don't think it's aiming for mainstream adoption anyway, it's a very specific niche.

[pjmlp]

First lets see if it actually manages 1.0, then lets see what major company adopts it for real.

D once upon a time was also hyped due to its Facebook usage, Remedy game engine tooling.

Also, has Zig already gone to space?

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/10614fc$273$[e-mail]

Or used by car companies?

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[e-mail]...

Anyway, I don't expect any of them to grow beyond their niche userbase.

D has lost its momentum, and Zig isn't really interesting as 21st century language in the AI tooling age.

[metaltyphoon]

IMO a language made mainstream when Azure, AWS and GCP has sdks for it. It’s not fool proof but and its a perhaps a good indicator?