It is very easy to specialise a function in zig, you just put if(T == u8) or something like that inside the function and do w/e in there
This is Zig so I guess the answer is "yeah, duh" but wanted to ask since it sounded like the solution is less, uh, "compiler-friendly" than I would expect.
if (comptime T == u8) {
// code
}
But I do think adding explicit `comptime` in places like this is reasonable for the sake of conveying intent to other programmers.