I'm a casual fan of Zig for hobby development, so just as a data point: I find Zig to be a pleasant option for code that requires high performance. I find it s

I'm a casual fan of Zig for hobby development, so just as a data point: I find Zig to be a pleasant option for code that requires high performance. I find it strictly dominates C as an option, as Zig outperforms C on every criteria I care about in a language's developer experience. I often see people compare Zig to Rust and complain that Zig doesn't have Rust's safety guarantees. I don't know Rust, but looking at it casually, the language itself seems to have a lot of complexity that doesn't appeal to me, and I'd still prefer Zig to Rust. If I need memory safety, I'd rather write in Go or Python. When I read articles like these, the gotchas they find don't seem that compelling to me. It's always like if you write your code in a deliberately confusing way to confuse the compiler, you can get incorrect results, but I don't care because I would never write code like that.