> Zig, D, Ada, ... they all offer massive benefits over C. > The only reason there is a push for Rust so much harder than anything else can only be explained by the community and their almost aggressive spirit of "if its not written in Rust, it should be".

Nonsense. Zig is even newer than Rust and still not ready. D pretty much required garbage collection. Ada probably would have been a decent option but it still doesn't solve heap memory safety like Rust does.