Until version 0.12.0 (April 2024), you could make arbitrary syscalls, allowing you to generate code at comptime, and promote vars between comptime and runtime.

Until version 0.12.0 (April 2024), you could make arbitrary syscalls, allowing you to generate code at comptime, and promote vars between comptime and runtime. [0] Before then, you could do some rather funky things with pointers and memory, and was very much not hygienic. [0] https://ziglang.org/download/0.12.0/release-notes.html#Comptime-Memory-Changes https://ziglang.org/download/0.12.0/release-notes.html#Compt...