As usual with this author it feels a bit too much like advertising toward the end. Still this is an important post, it shows quite well why you can't limit yourself at only the language used when picking a stack. You definitely need to look at the standard library and the wider ecosystem as well. Rust is no different there and has its own issues.

Github is definitely entrenched by now. Students and beginners hardly look for projects outside of it. Sad state of affair.

Interesting analysis of the crates ecosystem. It shows quite well some of the challenges and weaknesses. Nothing to worry about yet about the ecosystem health overall. Still, you should probably be careful when picking dependencies.

They both have their niches and it's welcome in my opinion. Now there are questions about the long term viability of Zig's ecosystem... the niche being smaller it's more at risk.