There’s almost countless languages that don’t do anything like this, whereas Zig is very similar. It’s fine to prefer this syntax or that, but Zig is pretty ord

There’s almost countless languages that don’t do anything like this, whereas Zig is very similar. It’s fine to prefer this syntax or that, but Zig is pretty ordinary, as languages go. So yes, the differences are trivial enough that it’s a bit much to complain about. You can’t have spent much time with Zig or you’d have learned the syntax easily.