You can find a lot of the "showing me how to program" sentiment is common among people who learn Lisp/Clojure, Haskell, Erlang/Elixir, APL (oh, I mean, Numpy and Spark), and any other language that significantly differs from what you're used to. In the same vein, C is often a revelation for those who cut their teeth tackling JS and Python.

Indeed, Zig has interesting features that make you think in ways you won't make when using C, like an ability to offload large amount of computation to comptime code, or using different allocators at different times (super simple arena allocation per a game frame, for instance).

"A language that's not changing the way you think about programming is not worth knowing."