[klabb3]

> It seems that the selling point of Zig is: more modern than C but simpler than Rust, so I understand the appeal, but isn't this undermined by the lack of memory safety?

Memory safety is a useful concept, but it’s not a panacea and it’s not binary. If the end goal was safety JS would have been fine. Safe rust is guaranteed memory safe which is a huge improvement for system programming but not necessarily the end-all-be-all. There are always tradeoffs depending on the application. I personally think having safety be easily achievable is more important than guaranteed. The problems we’ve had with C and C++ is that it’s been hard to achieve safety.