Comment by cies

> Developers writing low-level code lose the explicitness they need for review, while those writing high-level programs don't actually gain the level of abstraction required for a smooth program evolution that they need.

I've described this in the past as languages being "too general purpose" or too "multi-paradigm". Languages like Scala that try to be Haskell and Java in one.

> I have no idea or prediction on whether Zig will become popular

I think LLMs may be able to assist to move large C codebases to Zig in the next decade. Once zigc compiles C-Linux, bit-by-bit can be (LLM-assistedly) ported to Zig. This it not soon, but I think will be it's killer feature.

I don't mind if Linux becomes Rust+Zig codebase in, say, 10y from now. :)