ahh, ideally i'd say learning them in any order is fine but unfortunately since the zig ecosystem is not mature yet that means you'll find yourself using C libraries from zig fairly often.

so, yes, i agree learning zig is a great idea for new independent projects but (at the current stage) be prepared to also learn at least enough about C to use C libraries (return type conventions, raw enums, c-style strings, inflexible allocators).