True. That is however countered by a vastly simpler language. Language support for deferred cleanups[0] helps a bit. Also the GeneralPurposeAllocator[1] contains memory safety debugging features that make analyzing such bugs bit nicer.

IMHO it's a significant net gain over something like Rust because of the simplicity for most of the problems out there. I got 99 problems but needing absolute memory safety ain't one.

[0] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#defer

[1] https://ziglang.org/learn/samples/#memory-leak-detection