> Standard library documentation is indeed clunky as it is auto-generated for the most part.
I have not expressed myself clearly: the auto-generated documentation is severly lacking. The API of the standard library is clunky. To be fair, both those points are getting better. And yes, the language is very young and I understand that there are more pressing issues with the core language itself.
> I personally like that Zig doesn't bother with "strings" at a language level at all and just considers everything as arrays of bytes. String handling is a complexity nightmare and I feel that Zig wisely chooses to be simple instead.
It is definitely simpler, alas not everything is ASCII and arguing it should be to make life easy for programers is hardly a reasonable stance.
Also, maybe it is not clear in my comments but I actually enjoy Zig.
I have not expressed myself clearly: the auto-generated documentation is severly lacking. The API of the standard library is clunky. To be fair, both those points are getting better. And yes, the language is very young and I understand that there are more pressing issues with the core language itself.
> I personally like that Zig doesn't bother with "strings" at a language level at all and just considers everything as arrays of bytes. String handling is a complexity nightmare and I feel that Zig wisely chooses to be simple instead.
It is definitely simpler, alas not everything is ASCII and arguing it should be to make life easy for programers is hardly a reasonable stance.
Also, maybe it is not clear in my comments but I actually enjoy Zig.