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?"

There are literally 100s of high level languages, for every imaginable programming paradigm. If you want to write fast code where you control memory and don't use a garbage collector, C, C++, and Rust are your only options. It's nice to see new additions to the list.