> without the productivity-consuming and mentally burdensome “borrow checker” of Rust The borrow checker also gives you memory safety, which Zig does not have

> without the productivity-consuming and mentally burdensome “borrow checker” of Rust The borrow checker also gives you memory safety, which Zig does not have at the moment. Solving use-after-free and related issues is a hard problem. I have yet to see a way to solve it that doesn't boil down to one of runtime garbage collection, not allowing heap allocation at all, not freeing memory at all, or a region system/borrow checking. It's fine to not like the borrow checker, but it's there for a reason.