Meet Zig: The modern alternative to C
Programmers are never satisfied. As soon as we've accomplished one near-impossible goal, we start working toward a new one. A case in point is systems-oriented development, where we already have a complement of strong languages to work with: C, C++, Rust, and Go. Now we also have Zig, a newer language that seeks to absorb what's best about these languages and offer comparable performance with a better, more reliable developer experience.
Zig is a very active project. It was started by Andrew Kelley in 2015 and now seems to be reaching critical mass. Zig's ambition is rather momentous in software history: to become the heir to C’s longstanding reign as both the go-to portable low-level language and as a standard to which other languages are compared.