[James_K]

>Zig is famously simple to pick up and write with, so I don't know what you mean by "difficult".

It's easy to get in a car and put your foot on the pedal, but usage entails not crashing.

>Memory safety is one of a million ways it can be dangerous.

We have the statistics on this. It is 7 out of 10 ways it is dangerous, going by proportion of CVEs, so it's likely higher in less well tested software. Your estimation was off by 5 orders of magnitude.

>leaves the developer with a little more humanity

I could care less if the developer is afforded humanity. I want to write software and I want a programming language that helps me to do that. Whatever humanity I'm sacrificing by writing in memory safe languages is more than made up for by the comparative ease of not having to worry about memory safety.

>reacting emotionally

You are reacting emotionally. You are judging programming languages by their emotional value rather than their features. “Humanity” is not a measurable feature. 70% fewer CVEs is a measurable feature.