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Zig doesn't offer garbage collection. And also no Rust's complex memory tracking. So it's doesn't really free you from memory-related bugs, just like good-old C. But it's a "better C" IMHO.

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You just need to link in boehm c implementation and use that as the allocator just like chooosing any other allocator in zig. That's how easy it is.

They're saying the lack of GC is an advantage over golang, not that it's a deficiency.

Or if you're suggesting a GC to solve the memory unsafety, a GC only solves leaks and doesn't do anything for use-after-free or simultaneous unexpected mutations.

I'm saying you have the option to use a gc or not. It's as simple as changing the allocator you use

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