I don't know about zig bit the power of lisp is that youre manipulating the s-expressions or to put it another way, you're manipulating the ast. To do that in C

I don't know about zig bit the power of lisp is that youre manipulating the s-expressions or to put it another way, you're manipulating the ast. To do that in C you'd need to write a full C parser for your C program that processes source files.