Very good points, that can't be ignored. Zig looks to be trapped in a niche. It's going to have a really hard time pushing past other low-level languages, and b

Very good points, that can't be ignored. Zig looks to be trapped in a niche. It's going to have a really hard time pushing past other low-level languages, and because its small and focused on that area, will not be able to compete with numerous high-level general-purpose languages that do more for users. Add to that, Rust and Go have strong corporate backing, continually get lots of shine in the media, and often are given positive spin or ratings whenever compared to other languages. As you mentioned Nim, look how far uphill it still has to climb, after the many years (around 14 years) it has been out. TIOBE Index doesn't even have Nim in their top 50, and they aren't even on IEEE's top programming languages list (of around 60 languages). This is just as likely the fate of Zig as well. Not saying some people won't find Zig useful for particular niches, but rather it will likely never be on the level of Rust, Go, D, Object Pascal, etc... or possibly even Nim.