@lunathemoongirl@cailincat.cloud yeah, compile time code execution (comptime for short) is used a lot in zig, for conditional compilation, generic data types, and type reflection. For example, the growable array in zig's standard library is a function that takes a type and returns a type. If you wanted a list of u8s, you would use std.ArrayList(u8). One of the quirky language features that enables this is lazy compilation. Zig won't analyze code unless it is actually used.