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 Ok I'll bite. What is #zig and why is it better than #rust? 
 Zig is lower level. Zig is readable. Zig compiles faster than rust. Zig is more interoperable with C. Zig emphasizes compile time code execution. 

Rust is gay.  
 It's less magical. Sometimes you might want magic though? 
 Zig is easier to learn, compiles faster and has c cross compilation.
Rust has better memory safety and its ecosystem is more mature.

Both fast and good. 
 it's not better, it's just a newer C where everything is manual,also way too new, might become a usable language eventually  
 It is another low level language that was developed by mostly one guy Andrew Kelley, and came out a little while after rust, because AFAIK he didn't like the way rust and go were going.    It is closer to rust than go IMHO (no runtime garbage collector, manual memory allocation, borrowing I think, etc). It is a far smaller community.  I've never tried it myself. 
 all I care is it makes cross compiling C less shit