I don't have strong opinions in either direction about Zig. But there's clear empirical evidence that Rust has a successful C interop story[1][2][3]. And note:

I don't have strong opinions in either direction about Zig. But there's clear empirical evidence that Rust has a successful C interop story[1][2][3]. And note: browsers are the pathological case, in terms of build system integrations, global state assumptions, C++, etc. (Your other complaints have a place, and don't seem unreasonable to me. But they're empirically not impediments to Rust's interop story.) [1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/rust.md#Status https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/... [2]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/rust.html https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/ru... [3]: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-nginx-compatibility-layer/ https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-nginx-compatibility...