Note then that there's an inherent conflict in programming language design space between introducing too many abstraction building tools and low-level details. It is very hard to make things truly orthogonal. E.g. memory and resource management tends to spill all over the code, with the other example being error handling.

And once a language designer adds ways (and a programmer culture) to hide things - it becomes very hard to follow the code.

Zig attacks this design space from a low abstraction and explicit flow point of view.