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Re:The Zig project is going nowhere by short_sells_poo on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:02AM (#50452421)
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.

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Re:The Zig project is going nowhere by pjmlp on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:33AM (#50453216)
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.

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