Programming language experts told Andrew Kelley, the creator of the Zig
programming language, that having code which could run at compile time was a
really dumb idea. But he went ahead and implemented it anyway. Years later,
this has proven to be one of the killer features of Zig. In the Zig world, we
call it comptime, from the keyword used to mark code required to run at compile
time or variables to be known at compile time.
Which experts? The "comptime" is just macro-expansion from Scheme/Lisp which has been around for a long time. Aren't C++ templates also "code that runs at compile time"?
