The problems Rust are trying to solve are both novel and difficult so it isn't particularly surprising that it's taking time. The team has also landed great improvements, like NLL. I'm optimistic about the direction of this, even if it takes time.

Zig feels much younger than Rust so we'll see how it develops, but it's certainly interesting. In particular, comptime and explicit allocators are two ideas I hope Rust borrow more from Zig.

> And Rust will be the low level language for any large project where safety is amongst the top 3 priorities.

Personally I don't really see what'd be left for Zig, because in most software of consequence safety is already a top 3 priority.