Comment by j-pb

I know these strengths, I've written Zig fulltime for ~1 year before switching to Rust, and I do miss comptime pretty much every day.

Still in my experience the strengths do not outweigh the weaknesses.

I'd also push back on the narrative that Rust is not a C replacement. For one because that characterization based on surface level syntactic similarities misses the point of WHY you'd want to have a C replacement in the first place. And also because if this whole situation has shown anything it's that if you want to generate the "extern C" boilerplate in Rust, then these days it requires little more than "hey claude/codex please write the imports for this C library" or even "please port this C library to Rust".