I am similarly sceptical, but that's not to say these new languages cannot teach us much. I don't know if Zig or Rust would ever become as popular as C++ -- the

I am similarly sceptical, but that's not to say these new languages cannot teach us much. I don't know if Zig or Rust would ever become as popular as C++ -- the odds are certainly stacked against them -- but they both have novel approaches that could, perhaps, introduce some ideas into programming that one day may make an impact.