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Not enough coverage in RS to establish notability. The theregister.co.uk and SD News citations are just mentions in passing. Infoworld gave it a page in 2016 but IMO that not enough to satisfy WP:GNG or WP:NSOFT. Guy Macon (talk) 15:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Guy Macon (talk) 15:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 15:44, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

• Delete, Several WP:SPS and lack of WP:SIGCOV.--Kieran207(talk-Contribs) 20:04, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
  • Kieran207, please ignore the crappy sources when assessing notability. Did you not find any WP:RELIABLE sources with WP:SIGCOV? ~Kvng (talk) 13:46, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
• Keep, True, the project is recent and has not received a lot of coverage due to its volatility. Yet https://lwn.net/Articles/833400/ on LWN.net has not been written by the developer group and is quite recent. Not sure if this counts as significant, though it's certainly not low effort. --User:LuckyStarr 09:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
• Comment Zig is an open-source project (We relax our criteria for these projects). When looking at GitHub it looks like a serious work (over 12K commits, 8K stars, and 300 contributors). After deep search (I checked all of the links provided by Google search engine after search using "Zig programming") I could get the next resources

• (1) https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/zig_programming_language/ - Four lectures by different authors in FOSDEM - (I don't know if this is good for notability or not - Can we use videos as reliable references? I guess Yes)

• (2) https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2019/05/13/a-reply-to-the-road-to-zig/ - An article by Ginger Bill - Author of Odin programming language : https://odin-lang.org/ - (Maybe useful for notability)

• (3) https://itscomputersciencetime.netlify.app/zig-thoughts/ - Written by an author who published many technical articles in different topics through many years. (I know, We can say it's a blog article - Not Reliable)

• (4) https://sudonull.com/post/3683-Zig-programming-language

• I expected to find more/better references (After checking it in GitHub) but I can't find many of them.

• Kvng I am interested in your opinion. Charmk (talk) 10:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

• Keep - Notability established under WP:GNG by [1], [2] and [3]. ~Kvng (talk) 18:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

• Neutral: The above makes me doubt my original conclusion. I am going to wait to see if there are more comments, and then will most likely go with the consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 18:30, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
• Keep, LWN and Infoworld are reliable sources and have significant coverage - plenty of detail and context to be the basis of an article. Adumbrativus (talk) 10:01, 24 February 2021 (UTC)