Translating 'elegant' C to Zig

angle-exact.zig

const c = @cImport({
    @cInclude("stdio.h");
});

pub fn main() void {
    const str = c"\x00" ++ "*" ** 8;
    var s = @ptrCast([*]const u8, &str[8]);
    while (s[0] != 0) : (s -= 1) {
        _ = c.puts(s);
    }
}

angle.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    const char* s = "\0********" + 9;
    while (*--s)
        puts(s);
}

angle.zig

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    const stdout = try std.io.getStdOut();
    comptime var width = 1;
    inline while (width <= 8) : (width += 1) {
        try stdout.write("*" ** width ++ "\n");
    }
}