Zig has been on my radar precisely because of Andrew Kelley's vision.

I wrote about cross-compiling to a raspberry-pi and writing a barebones driver for an OLED display[^1]

That was a lot of fun despite the fact the code was incredibly basic. The interop with C was effortless.

[^1] https://www.kamelasa.dev/posts/gettin-ziggy-with-it-pi-zero....