This is pretty close to saying Rust is not very different than C because it has the unsafe keyword. That is, either an ignorant (of Zig) or disingenuous statement.

To me the zig position is akin to saying that because Asan, TSAn and ubsan exist, c++ is safe because you’re just running optimized for performance.

If you believe I mischaracterized zig, please enlighten me what I got wrong specifically rather than attacking my ad hominem