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Comment by IlliOnato | Hacker News Reader

If there is no string concatenation operator (for run time), how do you concatenate strings at run time with Zig?

Depends on what you work on, I guess, but in my area of expertise string operations like concatenation are bread-and-butter.

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You probably use fmt instead. You provide a format string, an anonymous struct (a tuple) containing the values to be formatted, and a writer or byte slice, and you get the formatted string written to the writer or the byte slice.

Easy string (and array) concatenation is a godsend:

    string b = "betty";
    string s = "hello " ~ b;

You allocate a big enough buffer, and copy the strings in the buffer, same as in C.

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