I'm talking about Zig as it is now. If the design drastically changes, it would be different story. The UB comparison is not very relevant though because Zig, a

I'm talking about Zig as it is now. If the design drastically changes, it would be different story. The UB comparison is not very relevant though because Zig, a language that takes correctness seriously, aims to make it very easy to not have any UB (at least with high probability) in its safe mode. Aside from being inherently safer than C, and arguably C++, even with all of those enhancements (not considering safe variants of C), Zig brings benefits other than safety. Like terrific cross compilation, fast builds, and a language that is extremely expressive yet very simple and easy to learn. But I've long ago learned that language preference is mostly a matter of personal aesthetics, so all I can say is that I find Zig very appealing. Its design is certainly radical, and it doesn't feel like any other low-level language I've ever seen (it is about equidistant from C, C++, Rust, D, Nim, Ada; even when pushed I don't think I'd be able to say which of those Zig is most like, because it is so different). Like it or not, it offers a fresh vision on how low-level programming can be done.