> (Commenting from a throwaway account because they are going to lynch me otherwise.) No, you're just using a throwaway account because you know it's going to

> (Commenting from a throwaway account because they are going to lynch me otherwise.) No, you're just using a throwaway account because you know it's going to eventually get banned, just like it has already mostly happened in the recent flurry of similar posts that you and your unsophisticated friends have made. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/y4rgv7/zig_development_has_slowed_down_98_since_this/ https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/y4rgv7/zig_dev... https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/y1zuzv/is_the_zig_programming_language_dead/ https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/y1zuzv/is... https://old.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/y1zwan/is_the_zig_programming_language_dead/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/y1zwan/is_t... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74040564/is-the-zig-programming-language-dead https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74040564/is-the-zig-prog... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183818 Plus also sneaking into our communities: (requires joining the main Zig Discord server) https://discord.com/channels/605571803288698900/1023625686327492761/1030433703492587580 https://discord.com/channels/605571803288698900/102362568632... Unfortunately for you we play more than enough Secret Hitler to know when it's time to yeet somebody out of the server right away. Can't wait to meet your new alt, maybe next time you will be able to post more than one message before I ban you :^) > They have a whole Discord server where they upvote and promote posts about Zig. We have more than one Zig Discord server where people share links, most of which do get posted on HN. If you think that would be enough to game HN, you really have no idea about anything you're talking about. > (The program won't even compile if you try to write 'hello world' with non-ASCII characters.) Wrong. https://zig.godbolt.org/z/dane73Wsr https://zig.godbolt.org/z/dane73Wsr > Also the language is nowhere near a 1.0 release so companies are reluctant to use it in production environments. Uber is using zig cc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCj2J3HcEfc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCj2J3HcEfc Bun is written in Zig and has VC funding: https://bun.sh/ https://bun.sh/ TigerBeetle is written in Zig and has VC funding https://tigerbeetle.com/ https://tigerbeetle.com/ Zig is not yet v1.0 and we do recommend caution to anybody that wants to invest in Zig, as they will have to deal with all the breakages that are expected in a healthy pre-1.0 language.