>> Much of Zig seems to me like "wishful thinking"; if every programmer was 150% smarter and more capable, perhaps it would work.
... and the same could be said about Rust, only with Rust we can already see that it suffers from relatively low adoption at a relatively advanced age.
The funny thing about that claim is that it leads to an obvious question: if working harder to satisfy the compiler is something that requires less competence than other forms of thinking about a program, then why Rust? Why not ATS? After all, Rust does let you eliminate certain bugs at compile time, but ATS lets you eliminate so many more.
... and the same could be said about Rust, only with Rust we can already see that it suffers from relatively low adoption at a relatively advanced age.
The funny thing about that claim is that it leads to an obvious question: if working harder to satisfy the compiler is something that requires less competence than other forms of thinking about a program, then why Rust? Why not ATS? After all, Rust does let you eliminate certain bugs at compile time, but ATS lets you eliminate so many more.