Has this aged well though?

The TechBros pour in tons of money into "agentic programming" or "agentic workflows" right now. You can see that all over the place; OmarchySlop and other AI-controlled projects, where Claude is now the main designer. So in such a scenario, where does Zig really fit in? The "but for new code I choose Zig" is not a really compelling argument IMO. It reminds me of the issues that D has ("we are the better C++!!!" or even Java too). It's interesting that so many languages try to replace C. All failed, IMO. And C is still a pretty bad language. For instance, I think almost everyone would concede that crates in Rust are useful or good; C++ kind of submitted to this and has their own variant now as far as I know. C does not - or perhaps it has but almost nobody would know it.

I kind of want a language that really sits like in both camps: compiled, and scripting use. But each language seems to just fail hard in one area. Including syntax-wise. Complexity-wise too; I find Rust annoyingly complicated. Go is in many ways simpler than Rust, but it sucks in other ways. Of course there are always trade-offs either way, but I kind of want a language that can offer insane speed while having a great syntax (crystal also fails here; it is fast but the syntax is pretty bad. Why is "alias xyz abc" not working? It's so easy to support. But anyway I could go on for years here.)