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		lifthrasiir 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024) More accurately speaking, Zig helps spatial memory safety (e.g. out-of-bound access) but doesn't help temporal memory safety (e.g. use-after-free) which Rust excels at.

pjmlp 5 months ago | [–]

Which is something that even PL/I predating C already had.

ViewTrick1002 5 months ago | [–]

As long as you are using the "releasesafe" build mode and not "releasefast" or "releasesmall".

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