You wouldn't be losing FP niceness with Zig, and the pattern matching and enum situation is also similar to Rust. Even better, in a few areas, for example arbit

You wouldn't be losing FP niceness with Zig, and the pattern matching and enum situation is also similar to Rust. Even better, in a few areas, for example arbitrary-width integers and enum tagging in unions/structs. Writing parsers and low level device drivers is actually quite comfortable in Zig.