[AGDNoob]

Thanks, that's fair criticism. You're right about the while-loop thing, that code was very naive and did break with nesting. I actually ran into exactly the pain you described and ended up fixing it the hard way. It was one of the moments where I realized how quickly you start fighting the architecture instead of working on the language itself. About the bigger point: I agree with you, and that's kind of the direction I'm drifting towards now. I'm not really interested in competing with Zig feature-for-feature. What I'm more interested in is whether there's a different mental model for system programming that feels simpler. I originally planned to add pointers, but they gave me massive headaches. That was exactly the point where "low-level" and "simple" started to completely collide in my brain. The more I tried to make pointers feel clean, the more complex everything became. So the current idea I'm exploring is: what if you could write system-level code without having to think in memory addresses at all, but still keep things explicit and predictable? More like thinking in values and state changes, instead of locations in memory. That's still very much an experiment, but that's the "missing opinion" I'm trying to test