[geysersam]

What's a few years? They go by in the blink of an eye. Zig is a perfectly usable language. People who want to use it will, those who don't won't.

[attila-lendvai]

following upstream is overrated since we have good package managers and version control.

it's completely feasible to stick to something that works for you, and only update/port/rewrite when it makes sense.

what matters is the overall cost.

[kunley]

Hmm, if one writes a library Zetalib for the language Frob v0.14 and then Frob v0.15 introduces breaking changes that everyone else is going to adapt to, then well, package managers and version control is going to help indeed - they will help in staying in a void as no one will use Zetalib anymore because of the older Frob.

[all2]

For libs, yes, for applications dev, no.

I would expect fixing an application to an older version would be just fine, so long as you don't need newer language features. If newer language features are a requirement, I would expect that would drive refactoring or selecting a different implementation language entirely if refactoring would prove to be too onerous.

[tonyhart7]

only for hobby project

[scuff3d]

TigerBeetle, Bun, and Ghostty all beg to differ...

[nesarkvechnep]

You or in general? Because, you know, this is like, your opinion, man.

[tonyhart7]

My Opinion???

how about you goes to Zig github and check how progress of the language

it literally there and its still beta test and not fit for production let alone have mature ecosystem

[dns_snek]

Yes, your opinion. I run it in production and everything I've built with it has been rock solid (aside from my own bugs). I haven't touched a few of my projects in a few years and they work fine, but if I wanted to update them to the latest version of Zig I'd have a bit of work ahead of me. That's it.