I do think as well that some deeper scrutiny of semantics with the tools of PL research might have helped ahead of time - some of the most glaring warts like th

I do think as well that some deeper scrutiny of semantics with the tools of PL research might have helped ahead of time - some of the most glaring warts like the perfect forwarding problem, or the need for reference collapsing, would have been avoided if the standards committee had taken a more rigorous approach to understanding semantics and their implications. I hope Zig’s comptime will get that level of scrutiny.