Comment on Zig is becoming more production-worthyparentComments−kstenerud4yFor every feature X, there is a programming language Y that has had it for decades.It's not a question of inventing it, but rather of making it mainstream popular.−kjeetgill4yIt's extremely common in plenty of popular languages: Java's a big one, and if you count dynamic languages most do.−catach4yI expect that erlang is still significantly more popular than zig.−kstenerud4yOf course it is. Zig is an up-and-comer, so most established languages will be more popular at this stage. But Zig aims to be a mostly general purpose language (which is what the majority of mainstream languages are), whereas Erlang does not.
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For every feature X, there is a programming language Y that has had it for decades.
It's not a question of inventing it, but rather of making it mainstream popular.
It's extremely common in plenty of popular languages: Java's a big one, and if you count dynamic languages most do.
I expect that erlang is still significantly more popular than zig.
Of course it is. Zig is an up-and-comer, so most established languages will be more popular at this stage. But Zig aims to be a mostly general purpose language (which is what the majority of mainstream languages are), whereas Erlang does not.