Zig's Comptime: Bonkers Good
2025-01-07
This article dives deep into Zig's compile-time metaprogramming (comptime) capabilities. Initially finding comptime challenging, the author ultimately marvels at its power. Six different perspectives on comptime are presented, including ignoring it, viewing it as generics, standard code run at compile time, partial evaluation, compile-time evaluation with runtime code emission, and textual code generation. Through examples, the author demonstrates how comptime improves code efficiency, simplifies reading and debugging, and enables advanced features like code generation. Zig's comptime allows for extensive computation and code generation at compile time, boosting performance and simplifying code writing.
Read more
Development
compile-time metaprogramming