Not to worry, another tech thing will be along shortly to fill the hype/hate cycle with its own drivel.

Zig currently sits in the hype cycle like Rust/Ruby/Lisp/etc once did here. Eventually something will come along and Zig will be in the hate cycle.

In reality none of these things need the religious wars that seem to go back and forth. It's just an incredibly unfortunate and annoying aspect of how programmer-centric communities tend to go.

Unfortunately there are topics that should stop long ago but people still rave about those: ORMs, OOP, Git, JavaScript bloat, Linux vs Windows.

Somehow there are always fresh people who think someone cares or that somehow those are important discussions.