I've played with it for a few hours now and it feels promising. But also very hard to get into. There is not a lot of documentation nor code examples to look at. I'm trying to write the equivalent of int main(...) { for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < strlen(argv[i]); j++) { printf("%d %d %c\n", i, j, argv[i][j]); } } } in Zig, but figuring out how to do formatted output in the language wasn't so easy.

Another small annoyance was Zig rejecting \r in line endings. Thankfully, I'm using Emacs so it only took me 15 minutes to google the right fix. But it felt a little "gratuitous" if you know what I mean.