This was an excellent article and I enjoyed reading it several days ago.
However, you can tell right from the start that the author initially picked Rust based on hype alone and didn’t do proper pros/cons analysis. He felt happy with his choice of Zig because it was much better positioned to comply with his requirements for lower-level code that doesn’t tackle memory safety concerns and object lifetimes.
All in all, he eventually made the right choice but in the HN thread some people went as far as to claim that Rust is “bad” which of course it is if you pick it for the work that the author wanted; the Rust book is literally warning against some of his requirements in its intro pages!
So the article is valuable but it attracted some rather preliminary and harsh responses.