Rust's safety checks have basically nothing to do with its slow compile times. This is something that sounds intuitive but is just completely incorrect.

In particular, Rust made several good design decisions around this stuff that keeps those checks fast, like keeping checks local rather than being global.

(tongue in cheek) It seems recent history has shown that zig can get you to working software faster, then you can port it to rust once you are acquired or find market fit?

Maybe at some point in the future zig could add a rust compilation target ( like with `-ofmt=c` )...