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Zig's comptime is bonkers good
January 2025 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.
Being able to easily read code is important for all sorts of reasons, as it is how you build a conceptual understanding that is required to debug or make modifications to that codebase. Though, one thing that I always find funny about conversations of making Fizz Buzz fast is that the standard version of the problem always runs for exactly the first 100 numbers. In Zig, the format string is parsed at comptime, creating efficient output code while also performing all validation at compile time.
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