I used to know people who switched from Rust to Zig, and swore they would never go back to Rust. I personally tried Zig but I definitely prefered Rust (syntax, tooling, community). This was years ago. Zig is way more mature now. I'm still curious about it. But I recently read an article (cannot find it anymore…) claiming that AI handles way better Rust than Zig. The Rust compiler prevents AI to build non-sense. The author switched from Zig to Rust just for this reason. So I was wondering if Zig is still a smart choice in 2026 with AI over Rust? Enough to migrate tools from Rust to Zig?
Yeah, same here.When I had AI test the code, the compiler catching its mistakes helped it keep going on its own and produce more robust code faster. Just my impression, thought.
My read is that If your codebase needs a lot of unsafe - on intersection of hw, need a lot of memory allocations with custom memory allocators, can take advantage of comptime, using a lot of c dependencies anyway. Maybe zig makes sense? It's a very niche space.
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