I guess it’s good to focus on a minimal syntax while Zig is still heavily in development, but I really hope that at a later point there can be a little reversal in philosophy to get some balanced amount of syntax sugar into the language.
Because I think the philosophy to implement things in the stdlib that should be language features is what ruined both modern C++ and Rust 
Both those languages also suffer from the problem that there’s no clear separation between the standard library and language features, e.g. syntax may depend on stdlib conventions (like for-loops relying on stdlib iterator interfaces etc…).
PS: also maybe I’m old fashioned or too ‘C-sided’, but I think a language should still be useful without stdlib usage