I wonder how zig works on consoles. Usually consoles hate anything that's not C/C++. But since zig can be transpiled to C, perhaps it's not completely ruled out?
Consoles will run anything you compile for them. There are stable compilers for most languages for just about any console I know of, because modern consoles are pretty much either amd64 or aarch64 like phones and computers are.
Language limitations are more on the SDK side of things. SDKs are available under NDAs and even publicly available APIs are often proprietary. "Real" test hardware (as in developer kits) is expensive and subject to NDAs too.
If you don't pick the language the native SDK comes with (which is often C(++)), you'll have to write the language wrappers yourself, because practically no free, open, upstream project can maintain those bindings for you. Alternatively, you can pay a company that specializes in the process, like the developers behind Godot will tell you to do: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...
I think Zig's easy C interop will make integration for Zig into gamedev quite attractive, but as the compiler still has bugs and the language itself is ever changing, I don't think any big companies will start developing games in Zig until the language stabilizes. Maybe some indie devs will use it, but it's still a risk to take.
Language limitations are more on the SDK side of things. SDKs are available under NDAs and even publicly available APIs are often proprietary. "Real" test hardware (as in developer kits) is expensive and subject to NDAs too.
If you don't pick the language the native SDK comes with (which is often C(++)), you'll have to write the language wrappers yourself, because practically no free, open, upstream project can maintain those bindings for you. Alternatively, you can pay a company that specializes in the process, like the developers behind Godot will tell you to do: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...
I think Zig's easy C interop will make integration for Zig into gamedev quite attractive, but as the compiler still has bugs and the language itself is ever changing, I don't think any big companies will start developing games in Zig until the language stabilizes. Maybe some indie devs will use it, but it's still a risk to take.