> It is about fundamentally changing how you think about software.

> I'm not sure what they expect, but to me Zig looks very much like C

Yes. I think people should sincerely stop with this kind of wording.

That makes Zig looks like some kind of cult.

Technically speaking, Zig democratized the concept of imperative compile time meta-programming (which is an excellent thing).

For everything else, this is mainly reuse and cherry pick from other languages.