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The MOS Technology 6502 is one of the most famous processors which was used in a lot of home computers in the 80ies.
Even today it is mostly programmed in assembly. There aren't many compilers available, most prominent one is cc65, a C compiler.
Zig would be in a unique position to be a modern compiler for the 6502 processor family.
The 6502 does not have a huge instruction set, but has a lot of restrictions which makes code generation and optimization hard, but i think it's still worth a try.
Imagine programming your C64 in Zig!