Open-source Zig book

"nobody uses in the real world yet" is uncharitable, as Zig is used in many real-world projects (Bun and Tigerbeetle are written in Zig, for example). But there's value being at the forefront of technologies that you think are going to explode soon, so that's how people find time and energy, I guess.

Simple: your priors are wrong. People use Zig.

Even if what you say is true, people make bets on new tech all the time. You show up early so you can capture mindshare. If Zig becomes mainstream then this could be the standard book that everyone recommends. Not just that, it’s more likely the language succeeds if it has good learning materials - that’s an outcome the author would love.

ghostty and bun aren't real world enough for you?

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They're not. It's real world when there's a market for paying Zig jobs, not when you can list a few github repos that use it.

> people make bets on new tech all the time. You show up early so you can capture mindshare.

I got on the ground floor with elixir. got my startup built on it. now we have 3 fulltime engineers working on elixir fulltime. None of that would have happenned if I looked at a young language and said "its not used in the real world"

There's an actual production grade database written in zig: https://tigerbeetle.com/