I also did AOC 2021 to learn zig. But I found zig interesting and useful.
As someone with only 18 days more experience than OP it’s a little silly for me to say, but I think OP is getting put off the the normal learning curve of a new language and standard library. The struggle to learn different patterns faded away after not too many more days. Zig is pretty simple, and while the standard library is barely documented, it is pretty well organized and straightforward to understand.
I’m pretty interested to see where zig goes, and I’m hopeful about it.
(As mentioned, zig is a work-in-progress. The final form might be significantly different that what is there now,)
As someone with only 18 days more experience than OP it’s a little silly for me to say, but I think OP is getting put off the the normal learning curve of a new language and standard library. The struggle to learn different patterns faded away after not too many more days. Zig is pretty simple, and while the standard library is barely documented, it is pretty well organized and straightforward to understand.
I’m pretty interested to see where zig goes, and I’m hopeful about it.
(As mentioned, zig is a work-in-progress. The final form might be significantly different that what is there now,)