Zig definitely looks interesting, but it hasn't been nearly as much battle-tested yet, so it's a bit early to know whether it would be useful (or even usable) i

Zig definitely looks interesting, but it hasn't been nearly as much battle-tested yet, so it's a bit early to know whether it would be useful (or even usable) in the context. It is possible that opening the kernel to Rust would also open it to other system languages.