It is the anti-intelectualism from Go culture, gone wild against C++, Rust, Swift, anything modern, or even tools, using game engines versus doing the whole computer from scratch for a game.
Andrew's talk is here (second event after the two people chatting while sitting on chairs): https://handmadecities.com/media/seattle-2024/hms-day-one/
Here you can see a particularly funny (but also sad) reaction by one of these people https://drive.proton.me/urls/MB1EB4EF34#YZdvmAvBFp1C
> using game engines versus doing the whole computer from scratch for a game
That said you are doing yourself a disservice if you think that not using an engine to make a game is a form of "anti-intellectualism".
The official answer to complaints about missing documentation has always been "ask in Discord". Pretending that this isn't the case is just disingenuous.
> But to answer your question, it exists in the comments of the auto-generated build.zig.zon file
The comments document the file format of build.zig.zon, they don't tell you anything about how to actually use a dependency in your build system.