[alchemio]

Zig is plenty fast for a compiled language with optimizations. The Go compiler has no debug/release profiles and the generated machine code isn’t as optimized as say a language using llvm. If you compare it to C++ or Rust, Zig actually has better compile times, and it keeps improving.

[pjmlp]

Only C++ without incremental compilation, incremental linking and modules.

VC++ does import std in a fraction of time it takes to #include <iostream>.