Comment by pjmlp
7 hours ago
Of course they are, anything can be a gateway to inject backdoors, if security is not taken into account.
And as mentioned, if what Zig offers is already in Purify, there is hardly any added value over C and C++, without the headaches of a niche language.
Considering that you often run the code after you compile it, it might not matter. Anyway, like it or not, most compilers don't consider themselves security sensitive and will not consider malicious code that is able to hijack the compiler a security vulnerability.