Zig: Safer and Faster Than Unsafe Rust?
2024-12-30
This blog post compares Rust and Zig by implementing a garbage-collected bytecode interpreter. The author found unsafe Rust incredibly challenging, citing complex aliasing rules and undefined behavior as major obstacles. In contrast, Zig offered a more developer-friendly experience for memory-unsafe operations, including built-in memory leak detection and improved pointer ergonomics. The Zig implementation ultimately proved safer, faster, and easier to develop than its Rust counterpart.
Development
Memory Safety