[pron]

Rust is much older than Zig, though, and there's nothing stopping Zig (or any future language that doesn't adopt Rust's precise set of guarantees) from having the same, or possibly better. Given Zig's immaturity, I certainly wouldn't use it for any serious production software today.

BTW, I'm not saying Rust is bad. All I'm saying is that the attempt at proving it's objectively best by leaning on memory-safety is not really as objective as the people who make that claim seem to think it is.

[at_compile_time]

I hadn't heard of ATS before, and I think that I mistook your using it as an example of "more isn't always better" and thought you were suggesting it as an actual alternative.

I'm looking for the next thing I want to learn, and have been leaning towards logic programming and theorem provers, so you inadvertently piqued my interest.

[pron]

Sure, just keep in mind that various formal verification tools vary greatly in their usability, even theorem provers. I.e. the experience with ATS will be quite different from Lean, which will be quite different from TLA+.