Zig is a great low-level language. It's much better than C, while not being so much larger as e.g. Rust or C++. AFAICT Zig does well in embedded development, and should continue to do so. Note that Zig is not even 1.0 yet.
For most use cases I can’t imagine why you’d make the effort to move off C and not just go all the way to Rust.
Yeah but now they got the fame of the language that fumbled the ball because of an overly onerous anti-AI stance.