"Hello, World!": your first taste of Zig

Here we are! It’s time to rip off the Band-Aid and write our very first program. Yes, we're diving into the infamous "Hello, World!" program—but hang on… we’re going to do more than just throw text at the screen and call it a day. We’ll break it down, piece by piece, exploring every token until you’re a master of "Hello, World!" Copying and pasting snippets is not the way to learn, right? So, let’s build this from scratch and understand every part of it.

First, create a file named main.zig and open it in your favorite text editor. This blank canvas is where we’ll start crafting our Zig art.

Every Zig program begins with a main function, and in Zig, it looks like this:

pub fn main() void { ... }

Let’s decode this. It’s a public function named main, it doesn’t take any arguments,...