[seattle444]

Rust lives in the smart pointer world. So a good candidate as a c++ succesor. Zig lives in arena alloc and soa world. So it's a better than rust when you need performance beyond the norm.

[steveklabnik]

Just to be clear, you can absolutely do arena allocation and soa in Rust.

[bvrmn]

In Rust you have convenient escape hatch with a default allocator. It's similar to say "you can do safe applications using C or C++".