Having few features that are small and knowable is pretty much the idea behind Zig though. It's supposed to be more of a C replacement than another C++/Rust. If

Having few features that are small and knowable is pretty much the idea behind Zig though. It's supposed to be more of a C replacement than another C++/Rust. If you know C you can just read through the Zig language spec and see how stuff correlates and you just learned zig. Removing a whole secondary language for macros actually just makes the language simpler