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> My impression is that it was going to take a few years for things to shake out. Is that wrong?

I had that very impression in early 2020 after some months of Zigging (and being burned by constant breaking changes), and left, deciding "I'll check it out again in a few years."

I had some intuition it might be one of these forever-refactoring eternal-tinker-and-rewrite fests and here I am 5 years later, still lurking for that 1.0 from the sidelines, while staying in Go or C depending on the nature of the thing at hand.

That's not to say it'll never get there, it's a vibrant project prioritizing making the best design decisions rather than mere Shipping Asap. For a C-replacement that's the right spirit, in principle. But whether there's inbuilt immunity to engineers falling prey to their forever-refine-and-resculpt I can't tell. I find it a great project to wait for leisurely (=





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