Comment by p-e-w
5 hours ago
When choosing a language, people don’t only look at language features but also at community adoption, the library ecosystem, industry backing etc.
Zig isn’t even in the same league as Rust regarding these things. Zig may still be around and active 10 years from now, Rust is guaranteed to be.
Additionally, Zig just released 0.17, Rust's 1.0 was 11 years ago. The choice may have been mostly for non-technical reasons.