[ralphb]

Rust was started in 2006. [1]

Zig was started in 2015. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_(programming_language)

[octoberfranklin]

The language called "Rust" prior to 2013 is a completely different language from what people today know as "Rust". That language had a garbage collector, mutable aliasing, and no borrow checker (the three most unique features of today's Rust), and was basically "golang with different syntax":

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/11/18/imag...

The whole language got rebooted shortly after the blog post above, mostly because the borrow checker made so many other things suddenly unnecessary or trivial. What we call Rust today is at most 9 years old, and any similarities to pre-2013 Rust are strictly superficial syntax. They share a name and some syntax, sort of like Java and Javascript do.

Zig today at T+7 is not where Rust was in 2020 at T+7.

[jibalt]

What matters is time from initial inception.