I just looked up a Hello World program from the Zig Wikipedia article: const std = @import("std"); const File = std.Io.File; pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void { _ = try File.stdout().writeStreamingAll(init.io, "Hello, World!\n"); } That's a lot to follow, just to output a plan-text message, especially after this line: "The primary goal of Zig is to be a better solution to the sorts of tasks that are currently…
That's the 'official' hello world which is indeed a bit verbose (it's "correct" in the way that it generally shows how to stream formatted text to stdout though).
Arguably this is the more beginner friendly version, this prints to stderr though:
hello.zig:
const print = @import("std").debug.print;
pub fn main() void {
print("Hello World!\n", .{});
}
zig run hello.zig