Counting LoC in boilerplate is somewhere between silly and absurd ... there's just one instance of those lines for a large body of code. 3 more lines is not "mu

Counting LoC in boilerplate is somewhere between silly and absurd ... there's just one instance of those lines for a large body of code. 3 more lines is not "much more verbose". Old way to write: try writer.print("Hello {s}\n", .{"world"}); New way to write: try writer.print("Hello {s}\n", .{"world"}); And no, reducing verbosity is not a Zig thing. And there were far more important goals driving WriterGate than verbosity -- there were problems to be solved. If they could have been solved less verbosely then perhaps they would have been.