Opinionated in the context of programming languages usually means that the language forces it's own abstractions on you, you have to work with and around them.

Opinionated in the context of programming languages usually means that the language forces it's own abstractions on you, you have to work with and around them. Zig is not like that, it's pretty much just C, but simpler, ergonomic. It's design is a reasonably simple, portable abstraction of contemporary hardware. It gives you all the power to come up with your own abstractions on top of that.