I'm starting to think Zig's strategy to memory management is generally friendlier to a developer. If a function needs to allocate memory, it must take an allocator as a parameter. If it needs scratch space to perform computation, it can use that allocator to create an arena for itself, then free it up before it returns (defer). If it returns a pointer, the caller should assume the object was allocated using that allocator, and becomes the owner. It may still be unclear what happens to a pointer if it's passed as a parameter to another function, but I'd normally consider that a borrow.

It's a lot of assumptions, and if you trip, Rust will yell at you much more often than Zig; and it will likely be right to do so. But in all seriousness, I'm tired of the yelling, and find Zig much more pleasant.