I think, but I may be wrong, Zig wants to be high level assembly that could replace C. If people are viewing it from Python, Ruby, JS, and then C++ and Java POV, Zig may be a little too "raw". But then I don't think Zig intends to compete with C++ or Java. May be there will be a Zig ++ or Objective-Zig someday that will do that.