"If you have to drop a large portion of the C++ ecosystem to use the subset of the language you like then you've lost a major benefit of choosing C++ in the first place."
But, it'll still be orders of magnitude larger than the Zig ecosystem is likely to be anytime in the next couple of decades.
I'm not saying one shouldn't use Zig or that one should use C++...I've never been able to grok C++, as it is far too large for the small amount of time I have to spend on learning about systems languages (I can barely read it, much less write it effectively). I just think it's weird to argue for Zig with a point about ecosystem size. Zig will likely never look good on that metric, compared to C or C++.
But, it'll still be orders of magnitude larger than the Zig ecosystem is likely to be anytime in the next couple of decades.
I'm not saying one shouldn't use Zig or that one should use C++...I've never been able to grok C++, as it is far too large for the small amount of time I have to spend on learning about systems languages (I can barely read it, much less write it effectively). I just think it's weird to argue for Zig with a point about ecosystem size. Zig will likely never look good on that metric, compared to C or C++.