My take, unfortunately, is that Zig might be a more modern C but that gives us little we don’t already have.

Rust gives us memory safety by default and some awesome ML-ish type system features among other things, which are things we didn’t already have. Memory safety and almost totally automatic memory management with no runtime are big things too.

Go, meanwhile, is like a cleaner more modern Java with less baggage. You might also compare it to Python, but compiled.