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Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by kllrnohj on Saturday May 30, 2026 @10:40AM (#48336753)
> The fact of the matter is one of the biggest projects that used Zig thought that the devX was so bad

It's unlikely to be just a devex issue. The fact of the matter is that a memory unsafe language is an extremely tough sell today, and companies that have a security team at all have likely already made or are planning on making policies like https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

There's a reason "rewrite it in Rust" was a meme long before LLM coding tools or this Bun drama. With AI accelerated fuzzing techniques and similar, memory safety is rapidly going to become a basic requirement of anything run in a production environment.

Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by Philpax on Saturday May 30, 2026 @11:16AM (#48337146)
I would argue that memory safety is part of devex: it's just one less thing you have to be constantly vigilant about.