What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

The author, a seasoned Rust developer, reimplemented the JSONPath query language (RFC 9535) in Zig to compare the two languages. Zig’s tooling relies on the command-line build system `build.zig`, which the author found surprisingly easy to use, replacing the limited IDE support available for Zig. The language encourages a flat file structure, discouraging deep folder hierarchies and favoring single-file organization for readability.