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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by Tozen on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:10AM (#33104945)
> Zig's use of comptime is fairly revolutionary in a c-like language

Not revolutionary. Before Zig came out, which was 2016, there was Jonathan Blow talking about and arguably repopularizing it. Lots of people (who knows how many developers) and languages were influenced by him too.

2014, Jonathan Blow, who made lots of videos and gave lots of talks, before going on to officially promote Jai (2016). And it appears he was playing around with prototypes much earlier and talking about it (from 2014).

https://youtu.be/UTqZNujQOlA (Demo: Base language, compile-time execution)

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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by pverghese on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:06AM (#33105731)
Not very useful to us when Jai has not been released to the public. I would like it to, but currently Zig is more complete than Jai, atleast with respect to it being able to be used by everyone
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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by Tozen on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:17PM (#33116302)
By the time Zig reaches 1.0, Jai may have too or have been publicly released. And Jai's constraints on getting access to their Beta, appears to have been loosening over time.
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