I'm also slightly puzzled at saying "compilation is too slow!" followed by "I want to do anything during compilation". I think these are somewhat opposed to eac

I'm also slightly puzzled at saying "compilation is too slow!" followed by "I want to do anything during compilation". I think these are somewhat opposed to each other. Obviously it's not the only reason for slowness (stuff like templates vs vtables for example are also a huge impact), but at some point I tried to do some more advanced comptime stuff in Zig (it's pretty long ago, around Zig 0.6 or 0.7), and it became incredibly slow to compile. I'd assume it's gotten better with the newer and faster self-hosting compiler, but it still shows that with full comptime programming you can make your compiler as slow as your comptime program.