[Barrin92]

>Why?

Memory bugs are hard to debug, potentially catastrophic (particularly concerning security) and in large systems software tend to constitute the majority of issues.[1]

It is true that Rust is not absolutely memory safe and Zig provides some more features than C but directionally it is correct that Rust (or languages with a similar design philosophy) eliminate billion dollar mistakes. And you can take that literally rather than metaphorically. We live in a world where vulnerable software can take a country's infrastructure out.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...