> or Zig in release mode My understanding is that Zig doesn't allow pointers to be null in the first place (regardless of release mode) unless you're 1) manual

> or Zig in release mode My understanding is that Zig doesn't allow pointers to be null in the first place (regardless of release mode) unless you're 1) manually creating a pointer from an integer or 2) interfacing with C, and in both of those cases all bets are already off anyway (as they would be in Rust). The only "supported" options outside of that would be a non-null pointer or None.