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0 pointslifthrasiir7mo ago0 comments

More accurately speaking, Zig helps spatial memory safety (e.g. out-of-bound access) but doesn't help temporal memory safety (e.g. use-after-free) which Rust excels at.

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pjmlp7mo ago

Which is something that even PL/I predating C already had.

ViewTrick10027mo ago

As long as you are using the "releasesafe" build mode and not "releasefast" or "releasesmall".

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0 pointslifthrasiir7mo ago0 comments

More accurately speaking, Zig helps spatial memory safety (e.g. out-of-bound access) but doesn't help temporal memory safety (e.g. use-after-free) which Rust excels at.

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pjmlp7mo ago

Which is something that even PL/I predating C already had.

ViewTrick10027mo ago

As long as you are using the "releasesafe" build mode and not "releasefast" or "releasesmall".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse