The author may not know C. As OP said, it's definitely the case that people interested in Zig may not have any interest in going through C first. They may event

The author may not know C. As OP said, it's definitely the case that people interested in Zig may not have any interest in going through C first. They may eventually have to, as Zig interfaces heavily with C code and libs, but there's nothing wrong with going Zig first.