The title is about CLI tools, then it seems like bunch of cope about borrow-checker-phobia.

I would actually be interested in a honest comparison of a Rust CLI program using clap, duct and some other standard CLI handling libraries with their Zig equivalents.

Show the code side by side, how much boilerplate each requires. Then compare how quickly they compile in debug and release mode, how fast they start, how big the binaries are after stripping, stuff like that.