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by MaxBarraclough 1608 days ago
I didn't mention Zig because as far as I know there's no Safe Zig subset, nor are there plans to develop one. Zig itself is an unsafe language. [0][1]

That's the nice thing about Safe Rust, it's a proper safe language akin to Java and JavaScript, while retaining high performance, plain old ahead-of-time compilation, and no garbage collector. Zig isn't playing the same game.

[0] https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537693