It feels a bit performative to me: the article goes out of way not to explain it by giving the C equivalent.
Perhaps some day Zig will have replaced C and beginners will come to Zig having never touched C, and in that context this approach makes sense - after all, you wouldn't litter an introductory article on C with comparisons to Algol. But today, surely the modal Zig beginner already knows enough C that the syntax would better be explained by reference to C.
Perhaps some day Zig will have replaced C and beginners will come to Zig having never touched C, and in that context this approach makes sense - after all, you wouldn't litter an introductory article on C with comparisons to Algol. But today, surely the modal Zig beginner already knows enough C that the syntax would better be explained by reference to C.