Comment by vlovich123

On this sliding scale you insist on, I think most would agree with if we’re insisting on being pedantic which isn’t a great place to have informal discussion. Regardless, correct me if I’m wrong - on the sliding scale Zig isn’t actually that far away from C/C++ whereas Rust is more like C#/JS/Java etc. it also broadens the definition of memory safety to include race conditions whereas Zig is still like C/C++ there (and indeed I can’t think of another language that provides the safety against races that Rust does). Moreover it does this without sacrificing any performance.

Look, Zig has neat ideas. No disputing that. But on the sliding scale there’s a threshold where people are comfortable classifying something as being memory safe to avoid perfect being the enemy of good. And by that classification criteria, Zig falls well below the bar and Rust clears it easily.