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
Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.
I mean, less is true, but “hardly” is doing a lot of work there
https://github.com/rofrol/zig-companies-and-organizations
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