It can be useful sometimes to learn things irrespective of what the rest of the world thinks of them.
My personal experience was (back in 2019) that Zig was basically a language you could learn in a weekend and end up being reasonably productive after a week. With that in mind, you might find that you can try it out and either find something that you really like in it and continue, or simply drop it (I ended up picking Odin over Zig, for example, and have found it delightful even 1+ years into production).
The truth is that if you only ever learn what is already popular you'll end up being the professional equivalent of a gray mass with zero definition and unique value proposition.
My personal experience was (back in 2019) that Zig was basically a language you could learn in a weekend and end up being reasonably productive after a week. With that in mind, you might find that you can try it out and either find something that you really like in it and continue, or simply drop it (I ended up picking Odin over Zig, for example, and have found it delightful even 1+ years into production).
The truth is that if you only ever learn what is already popular you'll end up being the professional equivalent of a gray mass with zero definition and unique value proposition.