The biggest reason against Rust is 3 year old article from personal blog. Trying to reproduce benchmark result from it result in failure because Zig code fails to compile.

Meanwhile Rust compiles just fine. Even updating toolchain to newest causes no issues and benchmark still runs. All I had to do is remove pinning to old toolchain, and bump language version to latest. Also changing dependency version to latest worked without an issue.

You'd think that performing all advanced memory manipulations you would want all the safety you want, but hey. Zig is cool this days.

Go figure.