[pmkary]

When I read "I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language, but it’s a totally new way to write programs" I expected to see something as shocking as LISP/Smalltalk/Realtalk/EVE/FORTH/Prolog... A whole new paradigm, a whole new way to program. Or at least a new concept like the pure functionalism of Haskell, or Prototyping like in Lua/JS/Io. And I was so damn shocked how I must have missed something so huge, having read the entirety of Zig's documentation and not have noticed anything? As you mentioned, turned out nothing, and I was shocked then why is it in the top of HN? Also turned out for no reason based on the comments.

[skotobaza]

The idea of modern society is "get hyped for the new thing". Tech crowd did not escape that unfortunately, and keeps rediscovering techniques that were already possible more that 50 years ago. Because they don't want to learn the history of the technology they are using.

[pjmlp]

"Computing is a fashion show"

-- Alan Kay

[wolvesechoes]

Dev celebs makes blogposts and videos on how Zig is awesome and unique, so the herd repeats.

[sparky4pro]

Same can be said about other programming languages. Therefore the comment of yours has zero value…

[wolvesechoes]

Nah, there are many languages ignored or even despised by those dev celebs.

> yours has zero value

Yours didn't bring much as well, so I suppose value isn't strictly required.

[sparky4pro]

Good point.

BTW: Your reply made me laugh so hard… I loved it.

Thanks.

[spacechild1]

> Also turned out for no reason based on the comments.

The reason is the clickbait title.