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+* Chapter 1
+** 1.2.1
+- Built in build tool is nice
+  - I have mixed feelings about the build tool taking in a build
+    script, rather than using a toml/json/etc config file.
+** 1.2.2
+- Really like ~test~ as a keyword rather than a module.  [[file:hello_world/src/main.zig::test "simple test" {][example]]
+** 1.2.3
+- Using a bang to indicate a possible exception is interesting.  Not
+  sure if I love it, will need to play with it, but it's certainly
+  terse.  [[file:hello_world/src/main.zig::fn testOne(context: void, smith: *std.testing.Smith) !void {][example]]
+- It is kinda neat that you can ~try~ without a follow up catch.
+** 1.2.4
+- Feels like a lot of commands to get a test. Gonna miss ~cargo run~.
+** 1.3
+- No thanks
+  #+begin_quote
+  I personally think that, the best way of reading Zig code is to read
+  the source code of the Zig Standard Library.
+  #+end_quote
+- zig.news being down is weird, wonder what happened there?
+** 1.4
+- Don't like that ~var~ is mutable by default. Really do prefer
+  default immutability.
+  - Yeah I know I can ~const~, but it's the principle.
+** 1.4.4
+- "you *must* mutate" feels like such a weird rule.
+** 1.4.6
+- Gonna be hard to go back to manually defining the size of
+  arrays. ~[_]~ here I come.
+** 1.7
+- Labeled blocks are cool
+** 1.8
+- Woah, is that really what you have to do to write to ~stdout~?
+  #+begin_src zig
+    const std = @import("std");
+
+    pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
+        var stdout_buffer: [1024]u8 = undefined;
+        var stdout_writer = std.Io.File.stdout().writer(init.io, &stdout_buffer);
+        const stdout = &stdout_writer.interface;
+        const string_object = "This is an example of string literal in Zig";
+        try stdout.print("{d}\n", .{string_object.len});
+        try stdout.flush();
+    }
+  #+end_src
+- Sentinel terminated arrays sound so academic. Given all the
+  criticisms of how hard and complicated Rust is, with Zig as a
+  frequent alternative, I am surprised to see how academic this feels.
+- Have feelings about the choice to use the word "America" as the katakana example:
+  #+begin_quote
+  In the example below, we loop through the japanese characters “アメリカ”.
+  #+end_quote
+- Feel like it's strange to put the string library functions into the
+  memory std lib... but I assume that's because they're not actually
+  string specific?