Instead of being petulant about it, you could ignore it and move on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549
I don't mind languages getting hyped but seeing posts every week on the front page of HN about an unstable esoteric language with 0 adoption - yes, it's getting tiring.
simplotek is most probably a legitimate user annoyed by Zig news. I don't agree with their point, for what it's worth, but at least it's an opinion shared earnestly, unlike the troll.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337381 (posted from a 12-year-old account)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333904 (posted from a 2-year-old account)
Not wanting to see gratuitous self-promoting spam degrading the signal/noise ratio of an otherwise interesting discussion is hardly petulance. Replace any Zig reference shoe-horned into this discussion with, say, Java, and see if you have any point.