Comment by cmrdporcupine

Zig looks neat; a nice middle ground, not as preachy as Rust -- I took a stroll through the documentation but didn't get a sense from it how suitable it would be for baremetal or OS programming... Specifically about its standard library..

  * How dependent on libc is Zig, if at all?
  * What kind of runtime expectations does Zig have? Does it need a malloc, for example? 
  * How big is its standard library?
  * Is it possible to write code without its standard library?