Selecting a programming language

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Some thoughts in different thread that are relevant to this topic:

Zig notes

That is a very interesting and thorough analysis – hopefully the Zig authors are humble enough to consider some of the points. It is interesting the different thoughts on safety from “Blueberry Wren”: First, and very much foremost, Zig is not memory safe. This is, in my opinion, the most egregious thing in this post, by a very large margin. Moreso, Zig does not make any attempt to be memory safe - it can catch some things at runtime, with specific allocators, but so can C these days. Indeed, …