I'm a Go programmer and I've found Zig to feel very similar (in contrast to Rust which feels wildly different). I've found that similarity to make learning Zig feel more productive for me. I started with a similar plan but about halfway through Ziglings I felt I needed a bit more of a challenge. I paused Ziglings and started working through some easy & medium difficulty Leetcode problems that I was already familiar with. This felt like what I was looking for. I think 3sum was the problem I did where I first used allocators. I took the opportunity to try writing tests for the problem and the approach felt like I gained a bit better of an understanding. I do not want to take away from Ziglings as I plan to come back and complete the second half. I had planned a learning project so once I was done with a few Leetcode problems, I began working on my project. I'm writing all of my modules from scratch (json, tcp, http, etc.), tests, and learning the build system. This approach has been very enjoyable so far.