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The Zig creator is very conscious of this, talks a lot about rejecting many proposals and ideas to keep the language simple, not being an ass-hole about it, just to avoid what happened to C++.

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And then the question is whether it will grow fast enough, or get overshadowed by a language that’s a bit more like a weed, growing fast in whatever direction it can, and whether it will then die because of lack of sunlight.

It’s tricky to balance features, backward compatibility and ‘cleanliness’ in a (language, standard library)

You can come up with your own answer to that question by taking a look at how the Zig project is run.

https://kristoff.it/blog/interfacing-with-zig/ https://ziglang.org/zsf/ https://ziglang.org/news/financials-update/

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