I think the author's criticism of the named initializer requirement is emblematic of a big problem I have with most new languages. The author says that it makes

I think the author's criticism of the named initializer requirement is emblematic of a big problem I have with most new languages. The author says that it makes things like vectors more verbose and awkward, which is true. My counter to this is: who gives a shit? I'm not writing a vector library or a game engine; I'm writing systems code, and unnamed initializers are harder to read and expose code to subtle bugs. And for what? So that vectors look prettier? A lot of programming language design seems to prioritize making its own standard library math functions more elegant to implement, which I find to be very irritating, and Zig is a breath of fresh air in this regard.