Zig Feels Bad for Rust, Rust Doesn't Think About Zig

Description

A three-part meme. The top is a tracker screenshot of ziglang/zig issue #36237 by andrewrk dated 2026-07-20, titled "introduce an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C," marked 4 comments, open, with the orange Zig [Z] logo. Below is the Mad Men "I don't think about you at all" format with an M&I SCENES watermark: a person in a plaid jacket, white shirt, and patterned tie has their face replaced by the Zig logo and subtitles "I feel bad for you."; Don Draper in a gray suit has the Rust gear logo over his face and replies "I don't think about you at all." The joke is Zig's founder picking a fight over a Fil-C-style runtime-checked ABI with no unsafe hatch, while Rust's community is portrayed as too dominant to notice. Technically it riffs on borrow checking vs whole-program dynamic memory safety, including C/C++ deps, at a 1-6x performance cost.