> My main issue with Zig is that I’m scared to invest time in writing something nontrivial to see the community/adoption flounder then regret not using Rust or

> My main issue with Zig is that I’m scared to invest time in writing something nontrivial to see the community/adoption flounder then regret not using Rust or C++ later This is 100% a real concern. If I'm going to choose Zig, it's because it is SO much better on some axis that the community/adoption isn't an issue as I gain the benefits almost immediately. That means that C++ and Rust probably aren't in the scope of choice anyway. I especially like the comment from elsewhere in thread where they are using it for scripting, of all things, because they can pop out code that builds and works on Windows and Linux. That's a good example--you gain the benefits immediately even if you later have to unwind that to something like Python.