It's not that simple though, Zig has equivalent spatial memory safety which prevents issues that are pretty consistently among (or at) the top of the list for most dangerous vulnerability classes.

And while I don't have enough experience with Rust to claim this first hand, my understanding is that writing correct unsafe Rust code is at least an order of magnitude harder than writing correct Zig code due to all of the properties/invariants that you have to preserve. So it comes with serious drawbacks, it's not just a quick "opt out of the safety for a bit" switch.

> Being able to guarantee that something can't happen is more valuable than making it simple to do something correctly most of the time.

Of course, all other things being equal, but they're not.