[noodledoodletwo]

I actually disagree with that and think it encourages bad practices in people who don't know better. The rise of fuzz testing on these old c applications following this kind of mentality is a constant source of cves . Why expose users to problems, if it's easy not too?

Also it's not like that safety costs much of anything. You really can get comfortable writing rust, especially "easy rust" like a single thread cli app. It really is easy, even convenient.

Either zig is a different tool to rust, in which case I get it. Or people should be waiting for zig to be mature, meanwhile rust has been stable for half a decade, and at this point "just works". I'm not going to sit through an addendum static analyzer and all the bugs that come with making one for a few years. Other people whose appetite for risk is higher will though, and I wish them the best. I've seen efforts in other languages, my conclusion is that it's much better to have it built in...