Zig has some advantages for such projects, especially in the beginning. Among them: - much easier to iterate on (due to the language being simpler and compila

Zig has some advantages for such projects, especially in the beginning. Among them: - much easier to iterate on (due to the language being simpler and compilation much faster) - native C/C++ interops (Zig can compile C and C++ and mix it with Zig) which is crucial for a node-replacement runtime that runs an open source JS engine - fewer dependencies and trivial static linking I guess that now that they've been acquired by Anthropic there's this combination of having both in-house Rust talent, AI which does better on Rust, and the funding and resources necessary to undertake such a migration.