But oddly enough, Zig is not a memory-safe language, and yet still heavily pushed on here. There are a number of measures, comparatively, that can be taken to make C safer too. The story on what can be done with C is still evolving, as Fil-C and other related projects shows.

For that matter, there are a number of compiled memory-safe and safer languages: Dlang, Vlang, Golang, etc... who could be discussed and are equally viable choices. And if we are talking about something that needs to be outright safety-critical, Ada and SPARK should definitely be in the debate.

However, all of that doesn't override the right of projects to decide on what language they believe is best for them or what strategies concerning safety that they wish to pursue.