Zig mentions D in justifying its existence

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 16:30:23 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Glancing over what they say there, it sounds like they're 
> trying to write a better version of C.

Yes http://ziglang.org/:
«Zig competes with C instead of depending on it. The Zig Standard 
Library does not depend on libc.»

The syntax seems to be mixing C with a little bit of Rust.

But no plans to add meta-programming or type system support for 
memory?

Ugh.

Ola.