The main reason why C is used everywhere is because the C ABI is the de facto ABI. This is why Zig was smart to have first party support for C libs. In fact t

The main reason why C is used everywhere is because the C ABI is the de facto ABI. This is why Zig was smart to have first party support for C libs. In fact the fact Zig pointer types are more precise, it allows imported C libs to be more correct than the original C.