What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

A Rust developer with seven years of experience reimplemented a JSONPath query language project in Zig to compare the two languages, finding that Zig's lack of IDE support forced a return to command-line-based development, which ultimately proved refreshing and led to broader changes in their development workflow. The developer notes that while some observations may seem naive to experienced Zig developers, the project provided valuable cross-language insights, particularly around Zig's build system and file organization approach.