Comment by hitekker

I'd concur with the sibling commenter; they put their money where their mouth is and they've addressed your arguments, particularly the popularity fallacy.

I'll also say Zig got Bun to their big acquisition; not unlike how other startups started with Ruby and then later to switched to Java at scale. Those startups didn't need to ruminate on their past experience as a horrible mistake or disappointment; they just moved on.