Nobody should feel insulted simply because a project decides to port its codebase to another language. It is a technical decision, not a personal attack.

Zig’s response has been a serious mistake. The TypeScript team ported the TypeScript compiler and language service from TypeScript to Go for TypeScript 7.0. Did anyone interpret that as the team insulting TypeScript itself? I certainly did not.

I don't know, sometimes programming language choices seem to be in the realm of theology, not computer science or engineering.

What is more hurtful than somebody else making wrong religious choices?