There is a difference between safe code, which is the goal, and a safe language (that's a statement the language makes on sound safety guarantees). Using a safe language is definitely one way to write safe code, but it is not necessarily always the best way, and it's certainly not the only way. Zig is not meant to ever be a safe language, but it is very much intended to be a language that helps write safe code. That is what I meant when I said that the two languages have a very different approach to safety.