> My interest was not (and still isn’t) in operating systems, programming language design, or safety (with respect to memory, formal verfiability, modeling as t

> My interest was not (and still isn’t) in operating systems, programming language design, or safety (with respect to memory, formal verfiability, modeling as types, etc.). Absolutely if you're not interested in the safety Rust brings, a lot of the design isn't going to feel worth it. The safety is my favorite part of Rust, though :) Zig is quite explicitly not a safe language.