> Rust's generics are complex and incur significant compilation overhead but they're also incredibly powerful. Zig doesn't have generics in the strictest sense

> Rust's generics are complex and incur significant compilation overhead but they're also incredibly powerful. Zig doesn't have generics in the strictest sense of the word. What it provides is compile time execution and types as first class values at compile time. You can write arbitrary compile time code that generates any type you wish, either with the traditional syntax or by using the @Type builtin (for example if you wish to generate a struct with fields that are defined by parsing some protobuf code, or w/e your heart desires, it is easily achievable).