zig

https://github.com/pannous/cheats/blob/master/cheats.zig

Rust is mainly a C++ replacement, while Zig is mainly a C replacement.

Unlike many other current languages doesn't follow the misguided async path but gets it right like go

almost self hosting: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89

To give up LLVM/clang and code our own code generator in zig would be giving up state-of-the-art optimizations and a very active community of people working on it.