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I'm confused by the use of なる rather than する in this quote:

> 今、頑張ってるから、なんとかなるよ

Presumably, the meaning is roughly "I'm doing my best, so somehow we'll make
it work!".

It seems to me that the emphasis is on the successful outcome due to the
speaker's efforts. So shouldn't we use the "I can do it!" なんとかするよ instead of
the "It will just happen by itself" なんとかなるよ? Or is する unacceptable here for
some grammatical reasons that I might be missing?
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する vs なる in なんとかなるよ
I feel like 頑張ってる has two meanings. The first meaning is, as you said, "I'm
doing my best" and the second is "I'm trying to make it". For example, you can
say「宿題頑張るよ」in the sense of "I'll finish my homework." I think the latter
meaning is more common in many cases.

Now, let us consider「今、頑張ってるから、なんとかするよ」. I feel the latter more and 頑張ってる
becomes almost identical to なんとかする in this context. It's a bit awkward to
connect the same passages with a causal relationship, right? So to speak, it's
like saying "I will make it because I'm trying to make it". This is the reason
why you can't use なんとかするよ.

Furthermore, it's possible that the speaker is cheering up someone else.

> A「もうだめだ。僕にこの仕事は向いてないのかもしれない」

> B「大丈夫だよ。今、君は頑張ってるから、なんとかなるよ」

In this case, なんとかするよ is more unnatural and なんとかなるよ becomes the only option.

UPDATE: なんとかなるよ has a nuance of "It's going to be alright, mate" and it's a
term used to be optimistic. なんとかする doesn't have this meaning at all and is
therefore inappropriate.
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