Because it's a stepping stone to other kinds of safety. Memory safety isn't the be-all and end-all, but it gets us to where we can focus other important things.
And turns out in this particular case we don't even have to pay much for it in terms of performance.
> The real underlying comparison statement here is far more subjective. It's along the lines of: "I find it easier to write solid code in rust than in zig".
Agreed! But also how about "We can get pretty close to memory safety with the tools we provide! Mostly at runtime! If you opt-in!" ~~ signed, people (Zig compiler itself, Bun, Ghostty, etc) who ship binaries built with -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
> Why?
Because it's a stepping stone to other kinds of safety. Memory safety isn't the be-all and end-all, but it gets us to where we can focus other important things.
And turns out in this particular case we don't even have to pay much for it in terms of performance.
> The real underlying comparison statement here is far more subjective. It's along the lines of: "I find it easier to write solid code in rust than in zig".
Agreed! But also how about "We can get pretty close to memory safety with the tools we provide! Mostly at runtime! If you opt-in!" ~~ signed, people (Zig compiler itself, Bun, Ghostty, etc) who ship binaries built with -Doptimize=ReleaseFast