The problem with this is imho that for a C replacement it doesn't offer enough to C programmers to switch.
If you're comfortable with C you will stick with C and benefit from it being the lingua franca, and not struggle to find support or talent.
This is true both at work or OS.
As a very talented C dev told me, I can see the point or go or Rust that would solve some of my issues, Zig while being an improvement doesn't solve any of my real pain points.
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The problem with this is imho that for a C replacement it doesn't offer enough to C programmers to switch.
If you're comfortable with C you will stick with C and benefit from it being the lingua franca, and not struggle to find support or talent.
This is true both at work or OS.
As a very talented C dev told me, I can see the point or go or Rust that would solve some of my issues, Zig while being an improvement doesn't solve any of my real pain points.
Example, Zig's solution to use after free is the same kind of debug allocators that have existed for C since the last 40 years.