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> ...but I'm curious if they do more for memory safety. With companies trying to avoid starting new code in memory unsafe languages if they don't have to, I wo
by Tozen 4y ago
> ...but I'm curious if they do more for memory safety. With companies trying to avoid starting new code in memory unsafe languages if they don't have to, I wonder if that will hurt Zig adoption.
I'm of the opinion that such companies or persons that would use it, are not as concerned with memory safety. Probably their use cases are more specific, limited, or narrower. Else they would likely go with more convenient GC using languages. Of which, various such languages are also compiled with optional GCs that can be turned off (Dlang, Nim, Vlang).
That, or deal with the greater complexities of adopting Rust or Ada, for primarily attempting to gain such greater memory safety. Per that part of your comment, do think the adoption will be smaller, more niche, and/or we will see it hit a lower ceiling.