> So, if among the alternatives you are willing to pick Rust or Zig to begin with, then popularity, maturity, clear prospects, and low long-term risk are clearl

> So, if among the alternatives you are willing to pick Rust or Zig to begin with, then popularity, maturity, clear prospects, and low long-term risk are clearly not your biggest factors and your choice will be based on other things that matter to you more. Quite frankly I don't see a place where the choice _today_ is between Zig and Rust. Rust is an established language, Zig is not. I replied to a comment that literally said "we don't really write that much in Rust so going back after a break is a PITA" and my comment should be read in that context. If you are not constantly going to keep your Zig code alive it's going to break just with the changes in compiler and language. Zig is a non stable language (and evidently does not try to be stable) and is notorious for miscompilations. > but the poster clearly has other considerations that should be judged based on the poster's values, not mine The person I replied to left two comments here. I would not interpret too much into that.