> Java and Rust have actually very similar memory safety profiles

They really don't. Look at how many basic data structures (in the standard library or outside it) require unsafe features in Java vs Rust.

> Zig has an identical memory safety profile to C

It really doesn't. Zig gives you the same spatial memory safety as Rust and very much not like C (and violations of spatial memory safety are a bigger cause of vulnerabilities than violations of temporal memory safety).