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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by sullyj3 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:07PM (#33337947)
Consulting Wikipedia's "first appeared" field for each:

D: 8 December 2001; 20 years ago

Go: November 10, 2009; 12 years ago

Rust: July 7, 2010; 12 years ago

TypeScript: 1 October 2012; 10 years ago

Zig: 8 February 2016; 6 years ago

The only one of these which isn't at least twice as old as Zig is TypeScript, which has the might of Microsoft behind it, and is based on a well understood, pre-existing language.

This is not a fair comparison.

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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by actuallyalys on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:38PM (#33338197)
The more reasonable interpretation (backed up by his other posts on this article and his use of "was") is that he is comparing Zig as it stands today to D, Go, Rust, and TypeScript when they were similarly new.
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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by sullyj3 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:44AM (#33340903)
Fair point.
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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by Tozen on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:48PM (#33351187)
However, when it comes to comparing just as old or even newer languages than Zig, such as Odin, Jai, Vlang, Carbon, etc... Various people have no mercy whatsoever.
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