Zig is a modern safer and more approachable C, that's the value proposition. It's value proposition is aiming for the next generation of system programmers tha

Zig is a modern safer and more approachable C, that's the value proposition. It's value proposition is aiming for the next generation of system programmers that aren't interested in Rust like languages but C like ones. Current system devs working on C won't find Zig or Odin's value propositions to matter enough or indeed as you point out, to offer enough of a different solution like Rust does. But I'm 100% positive that Zig will be a huge competitor for Rust in the next decade because it's very appealing to people willing to get into system programming, but not interested in Rust.