Hmm, I didn't find that quite to be the case. I wrote a toy GPU-accelerated (using OpenGL via C) terminal emulator in Zig. My take is that I'll probably wait for at least a 1.0 before I start hacking my side projects in it again.

My main issue was around finding good documentation and (not-outdated) examples, which I guess just comes with using a bleeding-edge language. The biggest thing I find lacking is a "Learn Zig" book that takes you through the whole language. Sure, https://ziglearn.org/ exists, but it needs about 10 more chapters. Zig types can get somewhat complex, especially when interfacing with C, for example - I remember some difficulty deciphering those. For many things I ended up just reading Zig's source code itself, especially when looking up standard library stuff.

I mean I get it, who wants to write a book for a language whose features are unstable?

On the plus side, I agree that I fought Zig a _lot_ less than when I first started learning Rust. And I still fight Rust if anything involving generics and/or nontrivial annotations is involved.