Zig in spirit is essentially Go without GC. If GC is not reasonable for your usecase Zig seems like an awesome choice. Unfortunately it's probably about 5 to 10 years out from being stable enough for most people being able to write serious applications in it though (notable exceptions being Bun and Ghostty, but they have solid effort behind them keeping them up to date with Zig).
If you're focusing on safety guarantees, sure. If you measure by safety checks included by default instead, it actually has more safety checks than Go (in particular, safety checked numeric operations for overflow).
The other big thing that makes it spiritually like Go is that you follow the same pattern of: allocate resource, immediately defer deallocation.
