I am too old and stupid to not use Rust. I’m kidding of course, but the mental load of doing the things we used do in C++ is really noticeable once it’s gone.
honestly manually tracing lifetimes of pointers is not as hard in zig as C and definitely easier than C++. it would be nice to know for sure but for small and medium sized programs it's not a that hard? and not even "cheating" using arenas
The hard part is when you have multiple people working on something, who all need to synchronize their mental model of all lifetimes in the project, or even in your own code when you come back to it in 3 months. Encoding this stuff in the type system is unbelievably useful.
Zig improves a lot of things, and seems like a pleasant language in general, but this isn't a problem that it does anything to solve.
