The C/C++ interop in Zig gives it a great value proposition for embedded systems programming. My experience of that culture has been that C++ is "too unpredicta

The C/C++ interop in Zig gives it a great value proposition for embedded systems programming. My experience of that culture has been that C++ is "too unpredictable", so C is the language of choice. And glob help you if you want to use dynamic memory allocation. Zig could replace C and the preprocessor and support programming at a higher level of abstraction (generics). I've tried a couple of times now to get my head around Rust with small efforts. Apparently I need big efforts and deep immersion. "A half-hour to learn Rust"[1] certainly helped with understanding the syntax around lifetimes. I keep reading that understanding the borrow-checker and lifetimes should be a snap for C/C++ programmers. Well, I've been doing C++ for over 30 years and C for longer, and Rust just strikes me as a bondage and discipline language. [1] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust