A program being written in rust itself doesn’t guarantee anything, but it tells you what you’ll probably find:

• Utf-8 support
• No shenanigans with installations, dynamic libraries and such. Just download and execute.
• Multi-platform support
• Low resource usage.
• semver.
• Compile with just 1 command if you want to.
• MIT/apache2 license.
• No memory leaks.
• If it crashes, at least it will probably log out something more helpful than “SEGFAULT”.

Many of those are highly positive to the end consumer.

Ignoring the rest of your comment. There’s no way rust is between C and Zig. Zig is supposed to be modern C while rust modern C++. I’d say zig is the one between C and rust

I’m one of those that use PowerShell on linux.

You can use tmux, vim, sed, awk or whatever binary you want from PowerShell. Those are binaries, not shell commands.

You can use pipes, redirects, stdin and stdout in PowerShell too.

I personally don’t regularly use any object oriented features. But whenever I search how to do something that I don’t know what to do, a clear object-oriented result is much easier to understand than a random string of characters for awk and sed.