The biggest issue with C is arguably buffer overflows, not use-after-free (Zig offers spatial but not temporal runtime memory safety). If you want both, but do

The biggest issue with C is arguably buffer overflows, not use-after-free (Zig offers spatial but not temporal runtime memory safety). If you want both, but don't want a Rust-style borrow checker (with all the restrictions this entails), use 'tagged-index-handles', those work just fine across all languages (and even make sense in Rust): https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html