I meant to ask my question in the spirit of HN (intellectual curiosity). I have found this community insightful when it comes to programming languages. Examples:
Vale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487
Lobster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160
I think this question will also be raised eventually since there have been other examples of Zig ports of Go projects:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429#31994394
I'm looking forward to OP's update. I believe it will be objective and insightful (surprisingly Google returns 0 results of "vlang vs. zig").