Rustlings VS ziglings

The Rustlings exercises

Did you try the rustlings already?

Did you checkout rustlings I found it really fun to exercise

Start with Rustlings + reading through the Rust book

I’d recommend working through rustlings rather than watching videos for basic rust understanding: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings. It is essentially a set of quick exercises to get you familiar with the language and how to fix common build errors.

For advanced Rust “Jon Gjengset” has posted a number of long-form videos on YouTube that are very good. Search for it.

For code examples, find a crate in an area that you are interested in and clone the repo. There are so many to choose from that it would be unfair to single anything out. Variation is good, not bad. If you see lots of generics and macros then skip it for early learning purposes.

Instead of writing something from scratch I’d recommend rewriting something you are familiar with in but in Rust. For example, if you did advent of code (if that is your thing) in python then write it in Rust and find a repo of someone who solved the same problems in Rust.

The Rust book is excellent. https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/

Hi Reddit, I'm a beginner on Rust and currently practicing on the Rustings project (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings)

As someone recently started learning zig. I recommend checking out ziglings. It helped me a ton getting started on the language, and I frequently revisit it for examples and docs.

It's unfortunately the only comprehensive reference I know of besides the official docs.

There is "Ziglings", but those are a collection of small exercises with answers rather than a full guide.

https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings

If you know of better resources than these two, please do share (not being passive aggressive here).

Ziglings [0] is a series of small problems where you solve bugs in Zig code, and I enjoyed working through them. The readme claims "you are not expected to have any prior experience with... C." When I did ziglings I found the most difficult part was adjusting to the type syntax (which I now love).

I admittedly know C very well, but assuming you already know a language with a C-like syntax (C++, Java, JavaScript, C#, Rust, etc.) most things like functions, control flow, variables, statements map to Zig with only small syntactic differences.

One thing that may be difficult to learn not knowing C is working with strings, since they are just arrays of bytes. Most other languages have a string type, but Zig is much more like C in that strings are null-terminated fixed-sized arrays of bytes.

[0] https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings

Also check out Ziglings, it's a tiny terminal game/tutorial wherein you fix errors in increasingly complex Zig programs, with plenty of whys and why-nots helping you learn the fundamentals.

Ziglings is a more playful way of learning zig and both work quite abit complementary. Personally I think ziglearn leans towards assuming more low level and prequisite knowledge of programming.

You want Ziglings: https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings

You might consider making a repository like this for C.

:) I am currently working through https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings for Zig.

Like Rust, but don't expect it to follow in all the footsteps of C++ and the same happens with Zig at this current moment in my studies. https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings