The last time I looked at this the whole language was a scam collecting a shit-load of donations from naive, low-knowledge programmers.

I decided to not look at it again based on that.

To be honest, this is an interesting article from a language comparison perspective, but this really weird breathless fawning over syntactic decisions (that may, at best, be slightly better than Rust) is insufferable.

If one added all the weird stuff Zig (or "Tig" as I call it due to the endless shilling of that one database company that seems to be the sole user of the language), it simply evens out:

Neither Rust nor Zig are particularly "beautiful" or in the top spots when it comes to good, clean, minimal syntax design.

It's just ... weird?

Thinking Zig has "lovely syntax" compared to Rust, feels like someone saying that Go has "great semicolon inference" based on only knowing JavaScript.

If you are going to annoy people, do it properly.

Which is not very noteworthy, don't you think?

Putting some HTML files on a web server somewhere is not that big of a mystery in 2025 that it might have been in 1995.

Github Pages supports Jekyll as a SSG out of the box.

Any documentation or tutorial – official or otherwise – that simply skips on this is getting people's hopes up just to waste their time.

Ohh, boohoohoo, what are you gong to do, cancel your lib.rs subscription?

Perhaps, the linked page just does a poor job of selling that.

As someone also working on a minimal programming language, I might share some of the values, but using Go as an implementation language is an immediate turnoff.

Also, not having a single code example on the linked page is super-annoying.

People need to stop that.

Incorrect.

Rust is not a functional, let alone functional-first language.

Your opinion is unpopular, because it is wrong.

No normal person would think of C when told to imagine a language that is not bloated and not unnecessarily complex.