> It’s not for everyone yet. It’s still unstable, and its ecosystem is small. However, both are improving.
To be fair, I've heard this for years now, yet the hype keeps mounting. I wasted half an hour this morning debugging a broken Zig project, all because I used a release a few months too new that removed some options used in build.zig
Releasing stable software and caring about backward compatibility is a skill many open-source maintainers don't ever want to engage with. It's so easy saying "our code is not stable, if it breaks good luck to you", but at some point it starts to smell like fear of commitment to running a serious project that people depend on.
To be fair, I've heard this for years now, yet the hype keeps mounting. I wasted half an hour this morning debugging a broken Zig project, all because I used a release a few months too new that removed some options used in build.zig
Releasing stable software and caring about backward compatibility is a skill many open-source maintainers don't ever want to engage with. It's so easy saying "our code is not stable, if it breaks good luck to you", but at some point it starts to smell like fear of commitment to running a serious project that people depend on.