Yup. Rust tries to make it hard to do systems programming poorly. Zig tries to make it easy to do systems programming well. Rust pushes you into certain (good) practices. Zig makes it exceptionally easy to understand what's happening, making good practices the obvious choice.

Haven't yet used Zig in anger, but it looks more like a successor to C (with a bit of Go), whereas Rust is a successor to C++, first and foremost.

How crazy is it to have a language where combining two foundation traits is such a huge footgun that the linter has to warn you (but somehow you can't ban it within the language)