and so now you have to add another tool to your toolchain, and if you want to become self-hosting, you have eventually refactor the whole thing, etc... And Zig

and so now you have to add another tool to your toolchain, and if you want to become self-hosting, you have eventually refactor the whole thing, etc... And Zig doesn't generally have plans to support the same types that are available in C++ so realistically the only thing you get is operator and basic function overloading. And in the C++ community, doing exports for interop as "extern C" (in general, because many other languages prefer it) is accepted anyways. Would you make the choice to add that complexity?