Re:Revisiting the design approach to Zig
by pjmlp on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:19AM
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This is one of the things I happen to agree with you. :)
If we take comptime feature away, Zig is basically Modula-2 (1978) with friendlier syntax for folks with C background.
Everything else in terms of security Modula-2 did better (yes it did have null pointers, but supports null checking).
And the tagging mechanisms for use-after-free are anyway available for C and C++ compilers for at least 20 years (Insure++, PurifyPlus and VC++ 6.0 debug allocator being part of the first ones).
If we take comptime feature away, Zig is basically Modula-2 (1978) with friendlier syntax for folks with C background.
Everything else in terms of security Modula-2 did better (yes it did have null pointers, but supports null checking).
And the tagging mechanisms for use-after-free are anyway available for C and C++ compilers for at least 20 years (Insure++, PurifyPlus and VC++ 6.0 debug allocator being part of the first ones).