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They seem to have a good write up to explain that: https://zen-lang.org/zig/

Also: forking /= stealing

You may want to check out the official statement [1] from the Zig foundation as well. Even though forking is not necessarily stealing, what they have done seems more accurately described as stealing.

[1] https://ziglang.org/news/statement-regarding-zen-programming... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481142 )

Not really. Like, I would't use Zen personally and it's fair for Zig to highlight their concerns, but still none of this is stealing, and seems more like a petty disagreement, the cause of many forks on other projects in history.

> forking /= stealing

I think many people just fundamentally don't understand sharing or friendly coexistence. The drive to dominate and control is sooo maladaptive for society but very widespread.

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