Very minor correction - Nim tends to attract people specifically with its language power via its powerful Lisp-like metaprogramming facilities, static introspection, etc. These features are expressly there to automate away mundane repetition. I do not think it belongs in a list with Zig & C the way you use it here.
I also think users of C (not sure about Zig) are quite happy to automate things. Linus Torvalds is a big user of C. He wrote a little C-like compiler to check Linux kernel code called Sparse [1]. You seem to be trying to discuss maybe larger (but not very well articulated) subpopulations of "Users" than Apex Programmers like Linus. It is definitely easier to do this with C than giant languages like C++.
Why, the 1980s & 1990s were littered with maybe dozens of hacked C compilers doing "this or that" automation in a way you do not see for C++ (and will probably never see for Rust). In point of fact, C++ itself (C with classes) was an early example of such! The idea was to automate/codify the object-oriented style of Simula in C.
pjmlp's sibling & child comments are also some good color on the history/context of all this. { Of course, partly it all depends on what you meant by "language power" and "automate" - I am just going by what that seemed like. }
"Littered" is the operative word: who today uses any of them? (Maybe lex and yacc.) In the 80s and 90s, viable alternatives to C were thin on the ground, so the population demographic of C coders (which included myself) differed markedly from today. That hardly any are used today tells us about the inclinations of the long tail of remaining hold-out C coders.
I also think users of C (not sure about Zig) are quite happy to automate things. Linus Torvalds is a big user of C. He wrote a little C-like compiler to check Linux kernel code called Sparse [1]. You seem to be trying to discuss maybe larger (but not very well articulated) subpopulations of "Users" than Apex Programmers like Linus. It is definitely easier to do this with C than giant languages like C++.
Why, the 1980s & 1990s were littered with maybe dozens of hacked C compilers doing "this or that" automation in a way you do not see for C++ (and will probably never see for Rust). In point of fact, C++ itself (C with classes) was an early example of such! The idea was to automate/codify the object-oriented style of Simula in C.
pjmlp's sibling & child comments are also some good color on the history/context of all this. { Of course, partly it all depends on what you meant by "language power" and "automate" - I am just going by what that seemed like. }
[1] https://sparse.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/