One thing I appreciate about Zig's development is that a surprising amount of effort goes into tooling and developer feedback loops rather than adding language

One thing I appreciate about Zig's development is that a surprising amount of effort goes into tooling and developer feedback loops rather than adding language features. A new language can survive missing a feature for a while. It's much harder to survive if every compile, link, and dependency update feels slow. The focus on making the development cycle measured in milliseconds instead of seconds seems like a good long-term bet.