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Are you suggesting that Zig never lets you just think about the problem? That's some terrible preoccupation with an idealized concept of a DSL.

The swift code examples look kinda slick but it isn't a different paradigm any more than JSX is for building HTML.

It seems like a form of The Bipolar Lisp Programmer. https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html

> Lisp is like wielding an air gun with power and precision.

Those Swift examples you show are very exciting, but it's best not to get carried away. It's the same as those that say that vim is terrible because it's modal and don't believe that vim programmers can think about the problem while they're typing because their brain is distracted with switching between modes.



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