The right to be suspicious of the motives of powerful people is infinitely more important than protecting their feelings from being hurt by suspicion.

Four days ago there was no intention to rewrite, now it's a simple desire to refactor. It's not adversarial conclusion, it's pointing out the clear hypocrisy.

If experienced (in open source and corporate politics) developers would bet on Polymarket if the rewrite is going to be ultimately merged, which side would you bet on?

What would the emerging odds be? My guess is 19/20 in favor of ditching Zig.

I have followed many initial denials on a wide range of topics, not only rewrites, over the years. Like clockwork, most of them were lies.

Not to mention invoking a major historical event, appeal to emotion move.