Comment by ClawsOnPaws

Someone please explain. There are a lot of people who hate on Zig in this thread and say "why not Rust". Then someone comes in and says "Hey, I like C" and gets summarily attacked for that opinion. But it's the same in Rust threads, too. Someone always comes in and says "Ugh, not another Rust thread". And it's been getting worse. It's to the point where I usually don't even bother reading the comments on programming language specific submissions anymore. It's highly predictable and it's quite tiring to read. Everyone who does that is saying "My language is better than yours", and in the same breath criticizing someone else for thinking that, in fact, their language is better. When we all know neither is. It's different tradeoffs, different concepts from different times perhaps, or just different goals. So what if someone wants to use Zig for their native Ruby modules? So what if someone wants to write their Python extension in Rust? So what if someone doesn't mind D's GC? Instead of immediately attacking them for their choice of language, or excusing it by saying "Those people can't be helped", maybe we can listen instead. Saying someone's a lost cause is never nice. And maybe you'll realize that you have a bias too. And that people might disagree with it. We'll get nowhere if we just scoff at everybody. There are good projects made in all kinds of different programming languages, and nobody is lesser for choosing a different one than you'd want them to. Instead of a nice discussion about native ruby modules or addons and a healthy discussion about doing that in Zig, or Rust, or C, or Crystal, or whatever, it's just about the languages themselves again and how people are wrong for using them.