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I didn't say it was safer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846507 Zig is safer than C++ I copy and pasted

• pron 1y ago
  > I copy and pasted what you said. No, you didn't. You wrote "You might like making and freeing every heap allocation but that doesn't mean it's safer." That is a very different claim (and one I didn't make) than "Zig is safer than C++". Zig is safer than C++ because it makes some absolute guarantees that C++ doesn't, and C++ doesn't make any absolute guarantees that Zig doesn't. But no memory leaks is not a guarantee that either Zig or C++ make. Zig and Rust guarantee that all Zig and Rust programs are free of out-of-bounds access (unless they explicitly use syntactically distinct "unsafe" operations). C++ makes no guarantee about all C++ programs that these two other languages don't make. To what degree that matters is a perfectly fine subject for debate, but that particular thing - again, important or not - is how I (and others) define "safety" (as it pertains to a language), and I made it clear that that's the definition I'm using. By that definition, memory leaks are not safe in C, C++, Zig, or Rust, but Zig is still safer than C++ because of other properties that are safe in Zig.
  • CyberDildonics 1y ago
    > I copy and pasted what you said. No, you didn't. I literally did. I linked your comment and copy pasted from it. What are you even talking about here? That's what you wrote, it's right there.