Zig is not a memory safe language and does not attempt to prevent its users from shooting themselves in the leg; it tries to make those unsafe actions explicit and simple, unlike something like C++ that drowns you in complexity, but if you really want to do pointer wrangling and using memory after freeing it, zig allows you to do it.

This design philosophy should lead to countless segfaults that are the result of Zig working as designed. It also relegates Zig to the small niche of projects in modern programming where performance and developer productivity are more important than resilience and correctness.