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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by b3morales on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:41AM (#31530899)
> Simplicity. Zig has no macros and no metaprogramming

This one is an odd point; this very article is a demonstration of metaprogramming*:

> Thanks to Zig’s type reflection we can read a row of data into a user-provided type without needing to write any “mapping” function: we know the type we want to read (here the User struct) and can analyse it at compile-time.

* Which is a feature I favor, for the record.

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by throwawaymaths on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:14PM (#31531303)
I think the poster meant "no macros" (and especially no c-style lexical macros)
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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by formerly_proven on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:40PM (#31532427)
No metaprogramming as in no separate metalanguage (e.g. templates, macro_rules!)
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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by avgcorrection on Friday May 27, 2022 @08:42PM (#31536542)
Homogeneous metaprogramming is a thing...
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