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You can now add Zen to that list, seems to be gaining from traction in the Japanese embedded programming community.

Zen is just a copy-paste of Zig with cringy people and marketing on top, it's not a real language.

Zen is sponsored by a Japanese company which also happens to be sponsoring the top contributors in Zig.

As with all open source project you cant please everyone, and if you dont like it you can always fork it and make your own version. Which is exactly what they did.

Zen appears to be a fork of Zig.

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