Open source or not isn't the point. The point is the mission and the ecosystem. Some of the Zig proponents laud the C compatibility. Others are seeking out the "pure Zig" ecosystem. Curious onlookers want to know if the Zig ecosystem and community will be as hostile to the decades of C libraries as the Rust zealots have been.
To be fair, I don't believe there is a centralized and stated mission with Zig but it does feel like the story has moved beyond the "Incrementally improve your C/C++/Zig codebase" moniker.
To be fair, I don't believe there is a centralized and stated mission with Zig but it does feel like the story has moved beyond the "Incrementally improve your C/C++/Zig codebase" moniker.