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> now that it's declared as a goal

No. It's an unaccepted proposal.

By the creator and benevolent dictator of the Zig language.

I think it's same to assume it's an official goal, now.

Here’s a list of rejected proposals made by the BDFL:

And most of those were rejected without all that much pushback, as opposed to this one where there's about 100 comments already.