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I have a great article for you about the challenges and problems of writing software for real-time audio generation.
https://glowcoil.com/posts/basedrop/

That's where we cannot do without low-level programming languages ​​with absolute control over what exactly will happen at any moment. Because you can't allow any unpredictable (non-constant) operations in the thread that generates the audio, it turns out that you can't do I/O, allocate or free memory, use mutexes or blocking queues to synchronize threads, etc.
With such restrictions, even the use of Rust looks too high-level because its RAII can play a bad joke on you and start to free some buffers when they lose their owner. So it turns out that even with Rust, you may, in special cases, have a memory leak or OOM.

It seems that for such software Zig with its explicit use of allocators and explicit defer, would be a little more convenient, but also not without difficulties.