In their phylosophy C and zig both aim to do very little behind the scenes beyond what you explicitly express in your code. On a technical level Zig re-uses f

In their phylosophy C and zig both aim to do very little behind the scenes beyond what you explicitly express in your code. On a technical level Zig re-uses fancy C compiler infrastructure in the form of LLVM. So that gets them pretty close. The advantage tha zig has over C is that it gets designed decades later when we have learned so much about what is good or bad or fast or slow about C.