I think they didn't really abandoned it, but were planning to make the metaprogramming facilities powerful enough to just implement them in plain code instead o

I think they didn't really abandoned it, but were planning to make the metaprogramming facilities powerful enough to just implement them in plain code instead of creating a separate language feature. (Zig has already taken this direction: https://zig.news/kristoff/struct-of-arrays-soa-in-zig-easy-in-userland-40m0 https://zig.news/kristoff/struct-of-arrays-soa-in-zig-easy-i...)