I understood your original comment to imply that you disagree with their choice of self-hosting the Zig compiler because they should instead have focused on architectural improvements, in which case I disagree because the two things are completely orthogonal in my mind—the benefits of self-hosting have little to do with performance, and certainly don't come at the cost of it. I apologize if that's not what you were implying.

> This is a thinly veiled ad hominem.

I never personally attacked you, so I'm not sure why you think this is ad hominem. That's a very uncharitable interpretation of my comment.