I like Zig the language. Probably more than rust - Zigs singular focus on making systems programming ergonomic really appeals to me.

Rust tooling however makes it an easy choice. Unit testing with pretty printing, proptest crate for property based testing, Cargo.toml is just an easier life choice than build.zig, etc etc.

Not sure if Zig will improve in this regard. I suspect what I consider an improvement Zig folks would not. Still easier to wrangle than C.