I've actually thought about that, and looked a little into canonical/idiomatic ways to implement a DSL in Zig, and didn't find anything small and natural.

I just find it intellectually offensive that this extremely short-sighted line is drawn after ints and floats, any other algebraic/number types aren't similarly dignified.

If people had to write add(2, mul(3, 4)) etc for ints and floats the language would be used by exactly nobody! But just because particular language designers aren't using complex numbers and vectors all day, they interpret the request as wanting stupid abstract Monkey + Banana * Time or whatever. I really wish more Language People appreciated that there's only really one way to do complex numbers, it's worth doing right once and giving proper operators, too. Sure, use dot(a, b) and cross(a, b) etc, that's fine.

The word "number" is literally half of "complex number", and it's not like there are 1024 ways to implement 2D, 3D, 4D vector and complex number addition, subtraction, multiplication, maybe even division. There are many languages one can look to for guidance here, e.g. OpenCL[0] and Odin[1].

[0] OpenCL Quick Reference Card, masterpiece IMO: https://www.khronos.org/files/opencl-1-2-quick-reference-car...

[1] Odin language, specifically the operators: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#operators