Comment by norman784

> The real question I have is why he chose Rust in the first place.

If you read the linked post carefully you will know.

> Compile times aside, the strengths and weaknesses of Rust and Zig today are much different than they were when I wrote the first line of code in Roc's Rust compiler in 2019. Back then, Rust was relatively mature and Zig was far from where it is today.