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I wish Zig had lovely vector, quaternion, matrix etx syntax. The team's refusal to add operator overloading will prevent this.

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You don't need operator overloading for vector and matrix math, see pretty much all GPU languages. What Zig is missing is a complete mapping of the Clang Extended Vector and Matrix extensions (instead of the quite limited `@Vector` type):

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-...

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#matrix-t...

Agreed, their reason for not allowing it is weird. No hidden overloading? OK make it explicit then: #+, #/ would be fine.

That would open a can of worms, because then the next thing would use a different symbol. AFAIK, Scala had a huge issue with random symbols polluting code readability.

That's not a reasonable objection, each proposal must be evaluated on its own, not on other non existing future proposal.

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