[pron]

No, although language preference is subjective. Rust is a language in the C++ tradition and, like C++, is one of the most complicated programming languages in the history of software, while Zig is probably among the simplest. Some people like elaborate languages and find the design, which mixes C++ and ML appealing. Zig is unlike anything else.

I would say that the biggest philosophical difference is this. While Zig and C++/Rust are all low-level languages and so suffer from low abstraction (it comes with the territory) -- i.e. implementation details are hard to hide, and changing them requires changing in the APIs clients -- C++/Rust invest a lot of complexity in trying to make the code, once written, look as if the language has good abstraction. The code is still as hard to change, but it looks like a high-level language on the page. Some people may like that, but Zig completely rejects that.