Even Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal eventually got them.
Zig is trying to fix C, by delivering stuff already present in Modula-2, minus comptime, in a C like clothing.
The judge is still out there if it will become something unavoidable in some industry circles, or just yet another programming language to talk about.
From my point of view, being stuck in the past of systems languages design, during the AI age where the actual language becomes slowly irrelevant, it will mean the latter.
Zig is trying to fix C, by delivering stuff already present in Modula-2, minus comptime, in a C like clothing.
The judge is still out there if it will become something unavoidable in some industry circles, or just yet another programming language to talk about.
From my point of view, being stuck in the past of systems languages design, during the AI age where the actual language becomes slowly irrelevant, it will mean the latter.