Comment by dnautics

zig doesnt make algebraic types hard. algebraic types are exceptionally easy and also safe. and unlike rust, named in a way thats friendly to c devs.

zig makes stupid metaprogramming tricks on algebraic types annoying (not hard).

so, being precise: zig is not necessarily annoying for fp programmers (my main tool of trade in Elixir). zig is made to be annoying for architecture astronauts.