I like the compromise, although I still think operator precedence in itself is evil :P Lisp kinda made the right call by mistake.

C/C++ obviously have far too many precedence levels, but you can easily have a more readable tower without forcing parentheses, like Go's 5 levels: https://go.dev/ref/spec#Operator_precedence

I never realized that languages have so many strict precedence levels because that’s easier to implement than not having them.

This here seems like a very good idea and I hope other languages in active development take note. And als JS’ Prettier, which actively removes parentheses like these.

Worth noting, WGSL does this too, and is mostly a bit stricter than Zig: `a + b & c` and `a << b & c` are errors in WGSL but accepted by Zig. (Quick: off the top of your head, how do those parse)?

I'm thinking of doing this for symbolasm also.