> why both Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty etc.) and Richard Feldman (of Elm fame, creator of Roc-lang)
Both undoubtedly are talented programmers, but you overestimate impact and importance of these project.
GitHub stars and HN posts are not very good indicator of what happens in the real world
I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted, but it's spot on.
Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.