Similar thoughts as well. But also want to add Rust being a complex language is now greatly helped by AI as well.

I think there still a long way to go before the final version of Zig. I am increasingly thinking 0.17 and 0.18 won't even be close to RC. But I really like the direction that Zig is solving a lot of problems not with language features but with its tool chains. Something I thought was obvious and should have been what it is in the first place. Instead we go increasingly big and complex language.