[davemp]

This is pretty close to saying Rust is not very different than C because it has the unsafe keyword. That is, either an ignorant (of Zig) or disingenuous statement.

[vlovich123]

To me the zig position is akin to saying that because Asan, TSAn and ubsan exist, c++ is safe because you’re just running optimized for performance.

If you believe I mischaracterized zig, please enlighten me what I got wrong specifically rather than attacking my ad hominem

[davemp]

I’m not going to write a detailed response to something that’s extremely close to what an LLM responds to “what UB does zig have?”

Arguing about whether certain static analysis should be opt in or opt out is just extremely uninteresting. It’s not like folks are auditing the unsafe blocks in their dependencies anyways.

If you want to talk about actual type system issues that’s more interesting.

[pjmlp]

It is worse, because Asan, TSAn and ubsan already have several years of production experience, in a mature ecosystem.

There is no point throwing it all away to get back to the starting line.