One of the goals of Zig is to keep the language simple. From the website: "There is no hidden control flow, no hidden memory allocations, no preprocessor, and

One of the goals of Zig is to keep the language simple. From the website: "There is no hidden control flow, no hidden memory allocations, no preprocessor, and no macros. If Zig code doesn't look like it's jumping away to call a function, then it isn't. This means you can be sure that the following code calls only foo() and then bar(), and this is guaranteed without needing to know the types of anything:"