[unwind]

What does that even mean?

"Target" I guess could mean that it could compile to code for those virtual machines? That would make some sense although for a language that sets out to compete with/replace C it would be a bit strange.

For "consume" I don't know ... do you mean "call into", or something?

[pjmlp]

Not strange at all, apparently many still aren't aware that C++/CLI exists.

CLR was designed from the start to support C++.

Back in the 2000, "Everything.NET" Microsoft, there was the goal of having everything on top of .NET, it just did not play out that way due to the endless Windows/Office vs .NET politics across MS teams.

Using C++/CLI is much more productive for interop than manually writing P/Invoke declarations.

Or using C++/WinRT to wrap C++ API into COM/UWP libraries.

Likewise on Java, microEJ and Android world, with Android Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans and Oracle Studio you can easily do mixed language development and debugging with C and C++.

Any systems programming language that wants a place at the table on these platforms, needs to cover these workflows as well as C++ does.

[lostmsu]

Correct on both cases.

With .NET I'd love integration with existing types and generics too.

Actually, I was just thinking aloud. I don't really mean for Zig authors to target .NET, but rather have .NET Core runtime and C# to have the concept of compile-time values and types.