How suitable is zig for such a task compared to say rust?
I know that higher level languages will have primitives that aim to represent strings, but if you need to get into the weeds with Unicode then you'll be leaning on a library regardless
Yes would agree and see them as platform related. It's just too large a task to create from scratch. Like say on JVM you can compile to bytecode and have strings already built into platform, and java.time, and ability to access an ecosystem of libraries.
With zig could one could use c or rust libraries?