Like, to be clear: if you want to develop in Zig because you like it for whatever reason, you should do that. There is no world, nor will there ever be a world, where there's "one language to rule them all". This comment should not be read as "you should write Rust instead".
I just don't find any of your descriptions of Zig to be things that Rust is guilty of. You can (mostly) write the same things in each language, ship a static binary, and your users would never know the difference. IME you are generally as "in touch with the computer" in Rust as you are in Zig.
It is a very explicit language.
Everything you're describing is a stylistic preference, though - and doesn't contribute to bloat, which is what the parent comment was implying. If your program is bloated, that's on you to clean up - it doesn't matter if it's in C, C++, Rust, or Zig. Every single one of these languages has nothing that stops you from getting it right.
(A weird aside but the downvotes on this chain are just odd to me. I'm not telling y'all to not write Zig, chill already)
They could say it just really vibed with them but they don’t.
I don't know of any other class of engineering that spends this much time on such weird attachments.
And C is basically high level assembly for the PDP, which has little in common with x86, for example.
On the other hand, every architecture that has tried to expose them so far has failed; nobody wants to manually apply the Tomasulo algorithm to their code, or manage shuffling data elements into and out of their cache hierarchy.
And food is just molecules, but we don't eat chairs because they're also molecules.
