Software Reliability C++ vs Zig

A tiny comparison of C++ and Zig in terms of building reliable software

I have spent a lot of my life writing C++ code and if there has been one thing that has bothered me about C++ it is just how fragile it is and generally unhelpful in tracking down bugs.

I don’t have time for an exhaustive check here, so here is just the simplest example I could come up with to make a comparison. We are reading a file which doesn’t exist. In C++ we got:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>…