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Yes, one of the goals for Muon is to make it easy to use Muon code from another language.

There's a recent wave of new languages in the same spirit as Muon, like Zig, Kit, Jai and V (the last two have not yet been released). But since they all have no/minimal runtime, it should be relatively easy to reuse libraries between them.

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I noticed Rust was not your list of languages. Is Rust fundamentally different then these languages? If so, why?

Ah, good question. Rust could definitely be in that list as well! It's a more mature language (so that's why I didn't mention it in the list), but conceptually it very much fits.

Seeing the original list, my guess was that it was no gc, with a small runtime - and the immediate question then was - how is this different/better than "D as a better C"?

The main difference is simplicity. D has a lof of features, like classes, inheritance, exceptions, properties, etc. Muon is a much simpler language that specifically avoids all of those things.

Rust aims for (mostly) memory safely which none of the others do. As a result it is way more complicated and rather different from them.

I think that is a very good design choice. Failing at that was one of the big catastrophes with C++.

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