I don't think it's the same. You can do template metaprogramming, but Zig lets you use Zig itself which is a lot nicer.

I'm not a D programmer though so I could be wrong.

I’m not a D programmer but I remember talks by Alexandrescu where he was arguing for this capability in C++ and ultimately one of his stated reasons why he switched from C++ to D

Look up static if - AST manipulation in native D code.