[cmbothwell]

You might like Odin, it has a similar philosophy to Zig and supports swizzling:

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#swizzle-operations

Matrix types are also built in:

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#matrix-type

I’ve thought for a little while that Odin could be a secret weapon for game dev and similar pieces of software.

[flohofwoe]

I'm actually dabbling with Odin a bit in the scope of language bindings for the sokol headers:

https://github.com/floooh/sokol-odin

It's a very enjoyable language!