<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbd</author><text>Zig is &lt;i&gt;full&lt;/i&gt; of good ideas and seems to be a truly serious attempt, by very talented developers, at improving the “C level” of the stack. I put my money where my mouth is and have a recurring donation to the Zig Software Foundation every month. Lots of people are excited about it. Dunno why you thought it was “ready for production” at a 0.x version though. They’re actively working on the self-hosted compiler and there are breaking changes every release still fyi.</text><parent_chain><item><author>refulgentis</author><text>I had no idea it wasn&amp;#x27;t in production yet: is there a story for why it consumes so much space on HN? Is the story strong enough already that is a clear alternative to Rust for post-C++ projects?</text></item><item><author>zenlot</author><text>Is Zig going strong in community, or it&amp;#x27;s likely to remain as a niche &amp;#x2F; fans language? I like the idea, but anybody knows how community &amp;#x2F; companies react to it in a more wider &amp;quot;looking to use in production&amp;quot; environment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig 0.9.0</title><url>https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spex_guy</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t comment for all the other people who are posting and voting for those posts, but at least for me Zig has quickly become my language of choice for side projects.  Its cross compilation features alone are enough for it to replace the system C&amp;#x2F;C++ compiler toolchains I used to use, and the language itself is everything I&amp;#x27;m looking for.  Readable (IMO) syntax, proper namespaces, order independent declarations, powerful metaprogramming, and an unmatched level of internal consistency all make it stand out to me.  It feels like a massively simplified C++, a native language that improves significantly on C without introducing a massive set of unrelated features.</text><parent_chain><item><author>refulgentis</author><text>I had no idea it wasn&amp;#x27;t in production yet: is there a story for why it consumes so much space on HN? Is the story strong enough already that is a clear alternative to Rust for post-C++ projects?</text></item><item><author>zenlot</author><text>Is Zig going strong in community, or it&amp;#x27;s likely to remain as a niche &amp;#x2F; fans language? I like the idea, but anybody knows how community &amp;#x2F; companies react to it in a more wider &amp;quot;looking to use in production&amp;quot; environment?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zig 0.9.0</title><url>https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html</url></story>