Also, much of what Zig improved over prior art and much of what Rust improved are orthogonal and can coexist. The ideal language for me would be one that takes

Also, much of what Zig improved over prior art and much of what Rust improved are orthogonal and can coexist. The ideal language for me would be one that takes the syntax unification, the arbitrary-width integer types, the meta-programming, and the explicit allocators from Zig, and the traits, borrow checker, scope-based destructors, and move-by-default from Rust.