[audunw]

> I find it so funny people are so fixed on bounds checking. A minimal run time environment is good. It's easier to port and runs faster. Further, there are more issues than bounds checking.

Bounds checking on arrays is a compile-time check in Zig. Other forms of bounds-checking can be disabled in release-mode.

I don't see a single compelling reason why you wouldn't at least want bounds checking in debug mode. If you're out of bounds, something is wrong, and it's always better to get an early and precise error about it.

In Zig you can take slices of arrays or pointers, which contain a pointer and a length. This is not just about safety, it's also a convenience. There's a lot of usecases where you want to pass around both a pointer and a length.

Considering how many extremely serious bugs have resulted from a lack of bounds-checking, and considering the relatively low run-time overhead of doing it (especially with some decent optimizations from the compiler), I don't find it funny at all.