Zig is amazing. What started as a one-man project is becoming a mature software ecosystem capable of standing on its own as a peer with the major languages.
I needed a regex library for another project, and dashed off an acceptable one in a week flat https://github.com/mnemnion/mvzr
The fun part about this is that it can compile, and match, during both comptime and runtime. Will it replace PCRE? No. But nor is it intended to.
It lures people in with “use any allocator you want”! Which only appears as freedom of choice when reality it’s locking the user into the same paradigm of memory management that has given C a bad name to begin with.