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> At this point I can't see us going back to the way things were. I can't imagine any new systems programming languages gaining traction that aren't at least as safe as Rust.

Zig seems to be gaining traction. Hard to predict whether it will succeed or slowly fizzle out after the initial excitement phase though.



Is Zig gaining traction? It almost seems like the project has gone radio silent in the past year. It's hard for a language to get traction when it's not even 1.0 and there's not much of a roadmap on how and when they'll get there.




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