There are situations where precise control over what the machine is doing is very important and a few of the problems that we experience in high-level contexts

There are situations where precise control over what the machine is doing is very important and a few of the problems that we experience in high-level contexts are caused by the inadequacy of our lower level tools. Give it a few years and everybody is going to benefit from better implemented "lower-level" applications, thanks to Zig and other languages attempting to do the same.