[bnolsen]

The anti rust sentiment in large part is dissatisfaction with rust itself. Ziglang.org lists 3 principles of zig: no hidden control flow, no hidden memory allocations, no macros. This is not anti rust for the sake of being anti rust, this is anti lots of popular languages, and I personally like it.

[littlestymaar]

That isn't “anti Rust” at all, it's just a different set of trade offs, and it's fine that it attracts developers who don't like the set of trade offs Rust make.

What's not very good are the people who don't like Rust, who are uneasy with Rust is eating the system programming world, and are now pushing Zig as the champion of the resistance about Rust.

It happens a lot, unfortunately.