Introduction

Dear reader,

Far from the madding crowd: vibecoding agents, big companies, and promises of a perfect programming language (that never arrives)... your thoughts spring from your fingers and, through the keyboard, code takes shape.

If you enjoy programming, you feel it tickle your brain cells. At times, you notice that something just "clicks." It's real - the satisfaction of learning. Not to get a job. Not to make apps in 5 minutes. Not to get rich reusing prompts. But for the pleasure of understanding, of digging deeper, and of building elegantly.

Zig is a young language, still evolving - and that doesn't really matter. All languages change sooner or later. Everything becomes obsolete eventually, except your mind and what you truly learn along the way. That journey begins today with the first step, and it will go as far as your time, your mind, and your imagination take you. That's the spirit of Zen of Zig.

$ zig zen

 * Communicate intent precisely.

 * Edge cases matter.

 * Favor reading code over writing code.

 * Only one obvious way to do things.

 * Runtime crashes are better than bugs.

 * Compile errors are better than runtime crashes.

 * Incremental improvements.

 * Avoid local maximums.

 * Reduce the amount one must remember.

 * Focus on code rather than style.

 * Resource allocation may fail; resource deallocation must succeed.

 * Memory is a resource.

 * Together we serve the users.