Comment by stephc_int13

My concern about zig/jai and others, is meta-programming.

Meta-programming can be super powerful and practical, and the current trend of reusing the language itself is clearly better than previous attempt.

But meta-programming in itself is not a novel idea, C macros and C++ templates are past well studied examples, and both produced awful results.

I am not sure they can prevent a new cycle of this nightmare.