Same answer as to why you don't configure your text editor to just not emit useless and outdated CR from past century - he has better things to do. And no, really, check out Zig repo's issue tab, he really has better things to do with his time on a project that's still evolving.

You're demanding 1.0+ usability from a language that's has yet to stand up on its own feet and is currently, unsurprisingly, 0.6.0 and won't be 1.0 any time soon because there's a massive amount of work that needs to be done.

This also isn't C and it wasn't developed/maintained for past 50 years.

Ignoring two different ascii bytes is not "1.0+ usability". The idea that it is a matter of work is an insane rationalization. Someone else said it is to prevent 'bike shedding'.

None of the backwards rationalizations people give actually makes sense, especially since it literally breaks any "hello world" program on windows. It's insane that people would try so hard to make excuses for such a basic disregard for new people.

Think about the reverse. Let's say tabs are treated as spaces and carriage return bytes are ignored. Who would ever argue that something should be changed to break these things?