When I want to tinker it’s usually because I want to make something faster than anyone else has done. Does that help illustrate why some might prefer to tinker in Zig, and why your definition of tinker seems a little narrow?
Most of the time "make something faster than anyone else has done" is just not worth doing? Good enough is good enough. Unless it's some super hot path and it's the speed that's the main goal, nothing else. Which is rarely the case.
If you only ever think of tinkering for the purpose of execution speed ninjutsu, isn't it your definition of tinkering that's far too narrow?
Most of the time "make something faster than anyone else has done" is just not worth doing? Good enough is good enough. Unless it's some super hot path and it's the speed that's the main goal, nothing else. Which is rarely the case.
If you only ever think of tinkering for the purpose of execution speed ninjutsu, isn't it your definition of tinkering that's far too narrow?