dinglejungle

This might be more of an indictment on 'readable' being a meaningful concept (beyond simple personal preference) than it is of Zig's syntax.

> Why would operator overloading allocate memory?

What if I wanted to overload the + operator to concatenate strings?

defer in Zig is per-scope, so

    {
        var file = try std.fs.cwd().openFile(path, .{});
        defer file.close();

        // ... code ...
        // file.close() is executed here
    }

would work just fine.

The company Elastic was created 2 years after the release of ElasticSearch.

Yes, but it's much more likely your money is going to record labels rather than artists with something like Spotify. With Bandcamp, you are typically directly paying the artists, and you can always pay above the minimum price set by the artist if you wish.

> Paying the artists you actually listen to

This is what Bandcamp is.

Are you saying that the given example should be disallowed?

Your analogies ignore the advertisement part of what you are quoting. Selling an OS doesn't require any particular scale at all, selling ads to display within an OS would.