>>106495181 (OP)
Depends on your definition of powerful but yes. It might not be the most useful, but there is no other language that is both this fast and high level at the same time.
that one Russian guy testing server performance convinced me that Zig is better for web, then that one prime test also convinced me that Zig is better for raw compute
tokio Rust's steady memory footprint to threads is impressive though
>>106496165
Your router was programmed in C or C++, nocoder. What does router have to do with systems programming? It's just a cuck that sends data where it's told so webGODS can earn $100k/year minimum while writing Rust
>>106496193
Routers do not operate on the application layer.
Also router's primary functionality is generally handled by dedicated hardware, not by a processor running C/C++ code. C/C++ code only manages the configuration of the hardware, it doesn't process packets. That would be very wasteful.
>>106496495
Not their primary function. Of course they also often serve a webpanel and such, but that can be written in literally anything. It's not that rare to have a router with some Java or other shit running for the web panel.