[defen]

> most static languages go with the usual angle-brackets thing for generics, which is fairly declarative and somewhat limited. Zig however has gone with a more general approach: use “comptime” functions which take types as arguments in order to specialize functions. That is way more fancy.

This seems like you're comparing the most basic usage of C++ templates to the full generality of Zig comptime. But isn't this ignoring the fact that people write absurdly complicated template metaprograms in C++ that are very difficult to understand and debug? C, C++, and Rust require you to learn a second language to do metaprogramming, Zig doesn't.

[avgcorrection]

I was comparing generics in Java and Rust with generics in Zig.