[Laremere]

FWIW, "safe" doesn't appear anywhere on the Zig homepage. I've been trying out Zig for the past couple weeks, and while I love it so far, it gives anything but the feeling of safety. I would say there's guardrails, but those are optionally disabled in the compiler for faster execution.

It seems to be that Zig is really not trying to be a replacement for all programming, but fill its niche as best it can. If your niche requires memory safety as a top priority because it accepts untrusted input, Rust would probably be a better choice than Zig.

[kvark]

Reminds me of modern C++, where the language and standard library features all work together to increase safety. And then it backfires because you feel like it's safe, but in reality it's not, and bugs still happen, they just catch you off-guard.