Zig vs Rust. Which one is going to be future?

I think about pros and cons and what to choose for the second (modern) language in addition to C.

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    Python is not better in every way, it’s just more general-purpose, so has a wider range of applicability.

    Also more people use it, though by that logic we should all be forced to use Windows bc everyone else does as well?

    And Perl both still exists and is actively maintained, so it “lost prominence” rather than “died”.

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      And Perl both still exists and is actively maintained, so it “lost prominence” rather than “died”.

      Okay, but you’re the one who called out “the demise of Perl”. Have you changed your mind? I was just responding to your question.

      For what it’s worth, I think you were right about that: Perl is dead, in the sense of no longer growing or even maintaining the reach it once had. Other languages are overwhelmingly chosen for new code, while Perl has mostly fallen into disuse outside of people who learned it in its heyday and haven’t moved on, and irrelevance outside of legacy systems. It might not be quite as much a dead language as Latin (which also still exists and sees some use) but it’s well on its way there.