Odin's '"special" runtime' as you call it is extremely minimal and is still easy to swap out with your own, and also only gets used if you use those features.

Odin's '"special" runtime' as you call it is extremely minimal and is still easy to swap out with your own, and also only gets used if you use those features. Zig has a runtime of its own now since it has added coroutines (async/await) as a core feature, but that is still extremely minimal aw well.