> Rust is not hard. Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.

I would read this in regard to Go and not so much in regards to Zig. Go is insanely productive, and while you're not going to match something like Django in terms of delivery speed with anything in Go, you almost can... and you can do it without using a single external dependency. Go loses a little of this in the embeded space, where it's not quite as simple, but the opinonated approach is still very productive even here.

I can't think of any language where I can produce something as quickly as I can in Go with the use of nothing but the standard library. Even when you do reach for a framework like SQLC, you can run the external parts in total isolation if that's your thing.

I will say that working with the interoperability of Zig in our C for Python binaries has been very easy, which it wasn't for Rust. This doesn't mean it's actually easier for other people, but it sure was for me.

> This is one of Rust's superpowers !

In some industries it's really not.