I wouldn't say it's inexcusable, but I'm definitely trying to avoid any systems language that has implicit null, and allows for data races and de-referencing uninitialized memory from safe code. So that only really leaves ATS and Rust, and rules out Nim, D, Zig, Jai... (for me at least).
Zig certainly has some cool ideas - I definitely think that we should be making the phase distinction more flexible. I do wish however that its compile time function evaluation was built on a firmer foundation, ie. using dependent types.
Zig certainly has some cool ideas - I definitely think that we should be making the phase distinction more flexible. I do wish however that its compile time function evaluation was built on a firmer foundation, ie. using dependent types.