> but the fascinating part is its use of partial evaluation (comptime) as a single coherent mechanism that replaces a myriad of other partial-evaluation mechanisms (macros, templates/generics, constexprs). That one mechanism is the core of the language, like macros are in lisps, and that design - whether you like it or not - is revolutionary.

That IS cool. I loved partial evaluation the first time I heard of it - Futamura projections, here we come! And if it can be used to obsolete language features I never was happy with (macros), so much better!

But until now, I never heard of it as a selling point for Zig. I assumed Zig was just yet another "C replacement but we don't want to deal with Rust's borrow checker". I will certainly have to take a closer look on Zig now. But this should be up and front in their self-promotion!