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Zig too. But this is far from being mainstream. Rust took around 5 years I think to become accepted in major companies, and those languages are harder to justify.

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I've started distrusting anything good people have to say about Zig because of the wide variety of untrue claims made about it - unless those claims come from Andrew himself. Last time I was assured that compile-time memory guarantees were possible and were going to happen (they didn't: the recent announcement is runtime/debug assertions). Zig is still making massive breaking changes, and while that is not a bad thing, it makes it categorically _not_ production ready.

Also note that isn't much different from debug heap that MSCV was already having in 2000[0], assuming you didn't want to shell out some money to Insure++{1], BoundsChecker[2] and similar products.

Or something like SoftBound, from 2009,

https://llvm.org/pubs/2009-06-PLDI-SoftBound.pdf

It hasn't been for lack of choice.

[0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/debu...

[1] - https://www.parasoft.com/products/parasoft-insure/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoundsChecker

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