It's pretty much a necessity for conditionally compiled platform-specific code if you don't have a text-based preprocessor with #ifdef/#endif. All statically c

It's pretty much a necessity for conditionally compiled platform-specific code if you don't have a text-based preprocessor with #ifdef/#endif. All statically compiled languages need to skip compiling such code one way or another. Zig is just thinking this idea to the end and doesn't compile any dead code. I guess the recommended workflow is to have good test coverage. The test basically turns dead code back into live code.