Other languages are much closer to Go than Zig. A few are Vlang (highest percentage), Odin, and C3 (in terms of how Zig is compared). In terms of C interoperability, C3 (highest percentage) and Vlang make this a strong feature of their languages too. All, in this group, have aspirations of being used "closer to the metal". For instance, there is the Vinix OS[1], from Vlang.

Rust coming across as a bit different, from those used to C family languages, has arguably a lot to do with its OCaml[2] (ML) roots.

[1]: https://github.com/vlang/vinix

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml