[rowanG077]

It is a helmet. But at least it's a helmet in situations where you get into brain cracking accidents multiple times a day. In the end the helmet allows you to get back up and continue your journey compared to when you had no helmet.

[mattwilsonn888]

We're talking about Zig not C. Same argument will apply to Odin.

These modern approaches are not languages that result in constant memory-safety issues like you imply.

[pjmlp]

Modern as in 1978 and Modula-2 was just made available.

Or better yet, modern as 1961 Burroughs released ESPOL/NEWP and C was a decade away to be invented.