Rust is, in fact, a "memory safe" panacea if you're willing to put up with the syntax and complexity. Memory unsafe code in Rust is clearly marked as such, and

Rust is, in fact, a "memory safe" panacea if you're willing to put up with the syntax and complexity. Memory unsafe code in Rust is clearly marked as such, and you have to go out of your way to write it. Swift is similarly memory safe out of the box. By contrast, it seems to be trivial to write unsafe code in Zig. https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/ The window has closed for languages that don't take memory safety seriously. The Zig team can work on it now, or they can work on it later, but they will have to do it to get the language past a certain level of adoption in the modern world. People are starting to write real, useful Linux kernel modules in Rust.