First time I saw a presentation on Zig by its creator it left a bad taste in my mouth: I looked like a "simplified Rust", with a lot of suspiciously similar names on the standard libraries and default types, yet there were zero references to Rust in any part of the presentation. In fact, it seemed like there was an active effort to avoid mentioning Rust, even though a lot of the things addressed by the language are/were some pain-points in Rust.

It's noticeable that there are a lot of differences, and some things seem to have been deliberately made different (even if they are in essence very similar and only syntactically different), so for me it looks a bit odd that most references to Rust on his blog nowadays are of adversarial nature (ie, "look how better we are than Rust").

Last, but not least, it also doesn't help with the big picture that the one continuously posting links about Zig here is just self-promoting their own creation...

Anyway, just my $0.02