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I've never used lisp, but I'm pretty sure you have the right idea. The only limitation is that it can only act on data that is compile-time known, which is a defined concept in Zig.

At the moment you can't do comptime allocations, so everything has to exist on the stack, but you can, for example, embed a file like a config or dataset, and run it thru a parser to turn it into some data structure, which is something you might otherwise work into the build system, running python/perl scripts to generate temporary code files, but now you can cut out the extra dependency by having that code generation in the same language.