Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release
I think that it is sad that we keep on creating new programming languages that are not radically different. The Zig language ecosystem faces the same problems as C and the compiler will preform many of the same tasks, lexing, parsing, optimizing, documentation, supporting all sorts of weird edge cases and use cases. From what I see in the introduction, I don't see a convincing case for a new language here. This kind of incrementalism is not worth another persons years of effort to create a parallel path.<p>I think that if you are going to spend years creating a new language, you ought at least to try something new. Otherwise, you become just another amateur landscape artists. Maybe you're paintings will look nice, but they'll never really be of any great value to society.