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I literally had to stop what I was doing and write about this immediately. This is a nerdy, programming language thing, but it’s a thing that made me smile and filled me with hope.

I first heard about the Zig Programming Language years ago. But I’m a very cautious adopter of new tech so it just sat there as "a thing that exists".

This week, though, I came across this YouTube interview with the creator of Zig. And I had to say some things about it.

This guy is smart, considered, articulate and humble.

I love his stance on business. (The Zig Foundation is a proper non-profit)

I love what he thinks about money. (he’s paid an senior engineer’s salary and that is enough)

I love his approach to open source. (MIT license, no v1.0 until its ready, it’s a gift with no strings attached)

I love that he just likes computers. And Zig is an expression of that.

I love that he thinks that reducing errors is a key path to good software and that quality is such a focus.

I love that Zig is an educational and mentoring project – contributors are identified and future collaborators and mentored as such.

I even love that he thinks running one marathon is enough, but is able to admit that he will probably run another.

We need more people in tech like this.

I hope he doesn’t lose his focus and values.

Zig might have to become more than just "something that exists" for me.

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