Rust optimizes for correct memory management. Its borrow checker and safe&#x2F;unsafe distinction makes the easiest option to make most often the one that is safe.<p>Jai optimizes for performant memory management. Several of its features, such as SOA pointers, make organizing your data to take advantage of the processor cache easier if not as easy as managing memory in any other way.<p>It looks like Zig optimizes for simple memory management. Without all the bells an whistles the other languages offer, the easiest way to manage your memory is the most obvious way. Which is good from a prinicple-of-least-surprise perspective.