Libghostty 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50399933

Maybe not unavoidable product, but zig has a vision, do not need to go different direction or make product immediately or die

It's flagged by major antivirus vendors, like Sentinel One.

I build based on libghostty, but with Typescript and Golang. I read this article precisely because I was worried about the future of Zig, despite not programming in it directly.

Thankful for the Hashimoto support of both organizations' financial sources: Zig Software Foundation and Ghostty via Hack Club. Thus both projects have external accountability. Hopefully that can help long term viability issues and alleviate the projects' social and financial pressures, as well as guide the projects technological and management choices. If that scaffolding didn't exist, I might not have chosen the platform.

The UNIX world is full of terminals, though.

Python is an extremely popular (and successful) language that is profoundly uninteresting.

You are saying they Zig is uninteresting because they don't want to pander to the current fads?

Let them cook. Perhaps they want to work on the core language for now, and maybe in 2-3 years time they can focus on the framework.

Or maybe they don't care about being popular. A passion project that is being worked on for a small group's enjoyment can still be interesting.

Python got successful thanks to Zope, and being a better Perl in the late 90's.

Followed by being embraced by the scientific community like CERN and Fermilab, for build tools and scripting C++ and Fortran libraries, before taking off with AI.

Thats only because the chicken and egg problem prevents it. We are in a new world where this problem is solvable. Fake it until you make it. Use the LLM to give you what you want first and humans can backfill what is important later.