I really enjoyed your comment. Probably because I've been thinking the same for a long time now. I've had to learn and write a lot of C++ in the past year and t

I really enjoyed your comment. Probably because I've been thinking the same for a long time now. I've had to learn and write a lot of C++ in the past year and the only way to stay sane is to use as small subset of the beast as possible. In many ways Rust is a better C++ - no undefined behaviour, no lvalues/rvalues/xvalues/..., complicated move semantics, tooling, etc. Rust feels like a nice subset of C++ with additional safety features on top. However, once people reach for C, C++, Rust or Zig - performance is on the line. To push the maximum out of the program we need to do as much compile-time programming as possible. C++ template meta-programming language is Turing-complete but extremely hard to learn and effectively program with. Rust compile-time programming is evolving - two sorts of macros and a Zig-comptime-like `const fn` feature. What I like about Zig's approach is summarized well by pron[0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22112382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22112382