> Just creating a file with dummy test like

> if (2 * 2 != 5) { @panic("fail"); }

> And running `zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe` takes a couple seconds on my computer.

What kind of computer are you on? I just ran that test (latest master build, first run):

   ~ % time zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe
   file.zig:1:17: error: expected type expression, found '{'
   if (2 * 2 != 5) { @panic("fail"); }
                ^
   zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe  0.03s user 0.44s system 505% cpu 0.094 total

Granted I'm on an M4 Mac but I wouldn't expect another system to be 20x slower.

Also another point. I have some zig projects from couple of months back and they all have build.zig/build.zig.zon. I tried to copy that to the new dummy project I did and of course the API changed and that is broken now (just 15 lines of build.zig code).

This kind of thing just feels unacceptable considering I don't really see ANY improvement on the issues I had from back then.

Also had a similar baffling experience when I last tried to come back to writing Zig. The std.time.Instant or similar API that also exists in rust and most other languages was move to the new Io interface and they also completely removed that std.time.Instant code.

Overall it feels like people developing the tool don't respect the people using the tool. C++ or even Rust are much less enjoyable languages to write compared to Zig so it is really sad that it is not possible to actually use Zig for me.