Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "Zig in 100 Seconds" video.

Zig is the first language that I have seen in decades that has hope for being a true successor to C, both technically and in spirit. C is and has been my most beloved language to use, but Zig is looking to be sooooo good. It really does seem to have pulled off being C without the legacy crud and hidden gotchas. My biggest fear for it, and have seen with other projects, is that the developers won't know when to stop adding features (yes, this is a direct insult to C++ and ready to be towards Rust). Go has its own purpose and priorities, but this is one area that they have pulled off perfectly: anyone with programming experience can learn the language enough to be halfway-competent with it in an afternoon. Once the addition of async is complete and part of the the stable language spec, I hope development slows down on feature additions, and goes the route of "quality over quantity".
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@alvarohigino I don't know, I personally cannot name any remotely popular language that has grown near as slow. C17 didn't add any language features. C11 was pretty much just threads. After that we have to go back to C99, which was probably the biggest change in recent history, with revolutionary concepts like stdint.h, booleans, and inline comments. If memory serves it also added variodic/inline functions at that point, which is a rather large change for a language like C, though would only bump a minor revision in any other. Before that was the Lord's version: Holy C89, so that is over 3 decades where I can list 90% of the of "bloat" in a brief YT comment from memory. Tooling has increased by leaps and bounds, but that isn't the language, so not really a fair metric.
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