Great work! Might do it too in some other language...

I got a convertion to Java. It worked (at least I think...) in the first try.

Then I want to convert this to my own programming language (which traspiles to C). I like those tiny projects very much!

Zig, here.

Anything but Python

At least python can do this exercise without pulling 3rd party dependencies :)

What's missing from Zig and its std lib for this?

Zig version [0] doesn't need any external dependencies.

0. https://tangled.org/m17e.co/microgpt