Comment by gw2

> even Rust isn't really memory-safe.

Yeah, and this points at a deeper issue: the concept of a language being either (binary) memory safe or not does not really make sense. Memory safety is a spectrum and most GC'd languages are safer than Rust (but you won't see a lot of "memory safety" proponents acknowledge this).

Also, there are mitigations that can make "unsafe" languages as secure as something like Rust, but those are deliberately overlooked and hence languages like Zig are constantly bashed using security as the reason.