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Yea I feel like most of these differentiators aren't things most people care about barring one. Tight integrations with c/c++ is potentially useful, beyond that I don't really get it. It's kind of like Hare in that regard?

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In general those are the reasons I see people give for why they still use C instead of C++ or newer languages. Also all of those things were, and maybe still are necessary for embedded systems where C still dominates.

To me it comes down to Zig is a "modern" C, but unlike most other attempts at replacing C it doesn't skip some of C's use cases.

See I got downvoted a bit... Let me rephrase, other modern languages offer something along the lines of these, of the things that aren't there for say rust, close integration with c/c++ is nice. Ie rust has nostd, etc.

out of that list, rust doesn't offer "no macros and no metaprogramming" and "no hidden control flow". maybe these just aren't things you care about?

Yea but for the most part you can avoid macros, and areas where you can't you can consider them to be keywords in my opinion anyways. Macros aren't all bad, but they do get abused a lot and make a nightmare for others. Fwiw Ive only written one macro and it was for learning purposes only.

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