Comptime: Scott Redig
Programming has obvious abilities to increase productivity through automated manipulation of data. Metaprogramming allows code to be treated as data, turning programming’s power back onto itself. Programming close to the metal has perhaps the most to gain from metaprogramming as high level concept...
Hasnain says:
“The formatting function used by std.debug.print in the examples is a powerful generic function. Lots of languages parse their format strings at runtime, and possibly add some special validators to the string format to catch errors early. In Zig, the format string is parsed at comptime, creating efficient output code while also performing all validation at compile time.”
Posted on 2025-01-12T00:31:49+0000