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If you are comparing Zig to Rust and C++, which are very well known to be difficult to learn, then that is not really saying anything about the ease of learning it. Compare it to Swift, D or Odin. Is it "incredibly simple" compared to those languages as well?

Similarly, one can claim that pretty much anything compiles "incredibly fast" if one compares with Rust, C++ and Swift.

But comparing to worst in class doesn't actually say anything.

One note about this:

> If you have not written a real application in Zig and evaluated it for vulnerabilities, but are claiming that creating Zig was irresponsible, and using it is too; you are cargo culting.

I don't know what this has to do with my comments at all, but I want to point out that you are using "cargo culting" wrong. This describes imitating practices of something successful, thinking that by this imitation, success will follow as well.

> No one reasonable has claimed that memory safe languages should not exist,

Again, I have not talked anything about whether memory safe languages should or should not exist. You are confusing me with someone else.



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