> The point is that if you look at the history of programming languages simplicity in general goes against safety... C and assembly are extremely simple compared to java, python, C#, typescript
But Java and Python are simpler yet safer than C++, so I don't understand what trend you can draw if there are examples in both directions.
> It's the greatest example of you take a simple language, you add a ton of complexity and it becomes more safe.
But I didn't mean to imply that's not possible to add safety with complexity. I meant that when the sound guarantees are the same in two languages, then there's an argument to be made that the simpler one would be easier to write more correct programs in. Of course, in this case Zig is not only simpler than C++, but actually offers more sound safety guarantees.
But Java and Python are simpler yet safer than C++, so I don't understand what trend you can draw if there are examples in both directions.
> It's the greatest example of you take a simple language, you add a ton of complexity and it becomes more safe.
But I didn't mean to imply that's not possible to add safety with complexity. I meant that when the sound guarantees are the same in two languages, then there's an argument to be made that the simpler one would be easier to write more correct programs in. Of course, in this case Zig is not only simpler than C++, but actually offers more sound safety guarantees.