[mk12]

> For most "good enough" use cases, garbage collectors work fine and I wouldn't bother with a system's programming language at all.

It's not just about performance, it's about reusability. There is a huge amount of code written in languages like Java, JS, Go, and Python that cannot be reused in other contexts because they depend on heavy runtimes. A library written in Zig or Rust can be used almost anywhere, including on the web by compiling to wasm.