It's probably closer to "a more modern, better C" than "an easier Rust". The core features of Rust are the borrow checker, traits, and algebraic data types, an

It's probably closer to "a more modern, better C" than "an easier Rust". The core features of Rust are the borrow checker, traits, and algebraic data types, and Zig is missing all of those. On the other hand, Zig has a lot of things that C doesn't have, and a few that Rust doesn't have as well - and some people gravitate towards the C-like simplicity of the language.