Enjoyment is part objective and a lot subjective. Mitchell Hashimoto who wrote Ghostty in Zig speaks about it here: https://youtu.be/YQnz7L6x068?si=VtH2FEAuW-Si

Enjoyment is part objective and a lot subjective. Mitchell Hashimoto who wrote Ghostty in Zig speaks about it here: https://youtu.be/YQnz7L6x068?si=VtH2FEAuW-SiFPHr&t=1415 https://youtu.be/YQnz7L6x068?si=VtH2FEAuW-SiFPHr&t=1415 I started with 6502 assembly and PET Basic in 1977, so for me, Zig is simpler, and jives more with me than Rust. OTOH, I chose Ada/SPARK for our product for the high-integrity, mission-critical aspect of our automation software. I programmed in Pascal back in 1988, and it has the same syntax, which I always found verbose and boring, but it is clear and structured and the concepts to achieve this level of high assurance are not too difficult. For ultiimate fun, I program in J/APL and now mainly BQN, so I am not a fan of verbosity! I would have been more attracted to Rust if it had kept ML-like syntax from OCaml and not the Algol-like curly braces of C/C++.