To understand why I say Zig will be a successful programming language, we need to know why all popular languages are that popular. How popular programming languages get popular ? In a talk by Richard Feldman, he talked about why isn’t functional programming the norm. And he answered the question “how did they get popular?” by this answer. Killer App C as a systems programming language because UNIX is written in C.

Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. A Simple Language Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge. No hidden control flow. No hidden memory allocations. No preprocessor, no macros. Comptime A fresh approach to metaprogramming based on compile-time code execution and lazy evaluation. Call any function at compile-time. Manipulate types as values without runtime overhead.