Zig 0.4.0 Released
"Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming."<p>If there's one truth I've learned in my decades of dealing with computers, it's that you can't beat C at being C.<p>Before now, I'd never heard of Zig in particular, but I can think of several other languages that have tried or are currently trying.  A lot of people seem to think they can make something a little better than C, in some ways, and that will be enough.  I doubt that even C18 itself, if it were invented from scratch today, would be able to unseat another systems programming language.<p>Everybody forgot about Worse-is-Better: "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses".  Any language which isn't more 'viral' than C (in terms of being ported, and attracting users) has no chance.  You're starting tiny, and growing less quickly.