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I'd be quite surprised if you hit this point in Zig as you would in Go. Go is only just getting generics whilst Zig has a very rich compile time programming support! I think a good example of this is the Zig creator recently wrote a type that turned an array of structs (I'm handwaving a little, it takes a struct that you would then put in an array) and then turns it into a struct of arrays. That's the kind of thing you can imagine having to type out by hand and hand roll an API for every time - in Zig it is a generic couple of hundred lines
Yeah I mean maybe it is also a different mental model that works better for me. But I’d say that Rust is def. more accessible than C. The docs, the book and resources like cheats.rs make it easy to get started. Whereas C has so many foot guns and dangerous methods which even challenge experienced developers. To me C is much more difficult than Rust. Being able to write code is not equal to being able to understand what the code is doing.
That was a good read. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15006 is absolutely hilarious.
