There's also the fact that if you want to recruit systems programmers for a project like git, the 19-year-old catgirls who are likely to be interested in that sort of work all work in Rust. Ask one to hack a legacy C code base and she might nyao at you angrily >:3
Why not zig tho.. keep the C, compile with zigcc and write new code in zig. Best of both worlds.
uwu but zig doesn't give you memory and concurrency safety guarantees, oniichan!
Idk if it's funny or sad, cause it's true.