Open-source Zig book

Welp. I wish I had read the comments first to discover that this is AI generated. On the other hand, I got to experience the content without bias.

I opted to give it a try instead of reading the comments and the book was arranged in a super strange way where it's discussing concepts that a majority of programmers would never be concerned with when starting out with learning a language. It's very different to learn about some of these concepts if you are reading a language doc in order to work on the language itself. But if you want to learn how to use the language, something like:

  > Choose between std.debug.print, unbuffered writers, and buffered stdout depending on the output channel and performance needs.

is absolutely never going to be something you dump into chapter 1. I skimmed through a few chapters from there and it's blocks of stuff thrown in randomly. The introduction to the if conditional throws in Zig Intermediate Representation with absolutely no explanation of what it is and why it's even being discussed.

Came here to comment that this has been written pretty poorly or just targets a very niche audience and now I discover it's slop. What a waste of time. The one thing AI was supposed to save.