> For loops are a bit strange too - you write

  for (items) |item| {}

>, which means you specify the container before the per-element variable. Mentally I think of for as for something in many_things {} and so in Zig I constantly had to write it wrong and then rewrite.

That does feel like the syntax is missing an "each" or a "with", as in "for each somethings as some do" or "with each somethings as some" - or in a similar terse/compact syntax:

  each (items) |item| {}

I'm surprised there's no mention about (lack of) string type - considering the domain (advent of code). I've not found the time to actually work on aoc this year, but I also had a brief look at starting with Zig - and quickly met a bit of a wall between the terse documententation on allocator, and the apparent lack of standard library support for working with strings.

I think the documentation will improve as the language stabilizes and there's likely to be more tutorials that work with text (both trivial like sirt/cat/tac in zig, and more useful like http or dns client and servers etc).

for strings, these might be good (haven't tried them yet): https://github.com/jecolon/zigstr https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph