Could you clarify what's going on in the Zig docs[0], then? My reading of them is that Zig definitely allows you to try to divide by 0 in a way the compiler doesn't catch, and this results in a panic at runtime.

I'd be interested if this weren't true, since the only feasible compiler solutions to preventing division-by-0 errors are either: defining the behaviour, which always ends up surprising people later on, or; incredibly cumbersome or underperformant type systems/analyses which ensure that denominators are never 0.

It doesn't look like Zig does either of these.

[0]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Division-by-Zero