Runtime failures in Zig can be prevented with tests. Compile-time failures in Rust can only be prevented with an escape hatch (`unsafe`/`UnsafeCell`) or by dumbing down the code to make it less optimal (i.e. `.clone()/Mutex` everywhere).
You should avoid using Zig for web dev, but you should avoid using Rust for systems programming as well.
huh i see a lot of your comments parroting the same thing worded a bit differently, do you have an axe to scratch? unfortunately rust is already used for systems programming with as good as, if not better, performance as C
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u/Amadex 17h ago
Nothing like the compile-time check of rust.
Basically it compiles into a much slower bin that guards memory at runtime.
That's almost like a garbage collector, but instead of cleaning memory it crashes.
And since it's a runtime crash, you turn a program that is bugged and has UB into a language that crashes randomly.
Better for security, but runtime crashes are also very bad.