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If that kind of stuff is always preferable, the nobody would use C over C++, yet to this day many projects still do. Borrow checking isn’t free. It’s a trade-off.

I mean, you could say Rust isn’t a modern language because it doesn’t use garbage collection. But it’s a nonsensical statement. Different languages serve different purposes.

Besides, Zig is focusing a lot more on heavily integrating testing, debug modes, fuzzing, etc. in the compiler itself, which when put together will catch almost all of the bugs a borrow checker catches, but also a whole ton of other classes of bugs that Rust doesn’t have compile time checks for.

I would probably still pick Rust in cases where it’s absolutely critical to avoid bugs that compromise security.

But this project isn’t that kind of project. I’d imagine that the super fast compile times and rapid iteration that Zig provides is much more useful here.