Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

I hope that we're not stuck writing piles of low-level code for all eternity. We don't need more than a few pages of each low-level language, and while I do really like Zig's qualities compared to C, I'd still like to minimize the amount of Zig or C total that has to be written.

I think that our community's equivalent of "where's my flying car?" is "where's my higher-level language?"

Who's the "we" who are "stuck"? The vast majority of programmers don't use low-level languages for writing applications even today, but there is a big niche of domains where close to perfect control is needed and that's the domain low level languages like C, C++, Ada, Rust and Zig try to address. I wouldn't (and don't) write "ordinary" applications in those languages, but I don't think the domains they target will ever go away or become less important.