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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by chrisseaton on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:48PM (#33103762)
Java's SubstrateVM was doing arbitrary execution of code at compile-time, including allocating, and preserving the objects to runtime in 2013 or earlier. Zig only came out in 2016.
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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by openfuture on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:54PM (#33103805)
McCarthy made lisp in 1960.
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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by dleslie on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:58PM (#33103834)
Macros didn't arrive in lisp until 1963, via a memo from Timothy P. Hart.

See AIM-57: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/ai/browse/0000browse.shtml

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