> Curious that since a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig
Are you referring to personal or professional codebases rewritten in Zig? Personally I haven't seen the Zig language used professionally in 1 company. And my impression from the last discussion about Zig:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549
was that the compiler was still too unstable to be used for real work.