Zig can and does win plenty of those benchmarks, but ultimately it boils down to who is it that gets nerdsniped into working on a specific challenge.

For example in this case Zig won big time over what C/C++/Rust people submitted: https://youtu.be/pSvSXBorw4A?t=1075

Zig is in the same ballpark as the ones mentioned above, so flohofwoe is right. But nevertheless I do think that cztomsik's point also still stands: how hard it is to make something fast will end up impacting the performance characteristics of the average program and library out there, and Zig does make it easier to write performant code than some other languages.

Which is basically what happened here: https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/

In truth the same applies to correctness, which is also a point that the blog post above touches upon.

> basically what happened here

Pico benchmarks!

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

https://github.com/zackradisic/rust-vs-zig/blob/master/bench...

> Zig can and does win plenty of those benchmarks, but ultimately it boils down to who is it that gets nerdsniped into working on a specific challenge.

> For example in this case Zig won big time over what C/C++/Rust people submitted: https://youtu.be/pSvSXBorw4A?t=1075

That was a faulty benchmark with a simple unnatural footgun that the Rust people overlooked. I don't think it supports your claim that benchmarks typically boil down to who is it that gets nerdsniped into them. Sure, it can happen, it happened at least once, but in general?