Rustlings VS ziglings

So here's the story. I decided to learn Rust, read the docs, solved the rustlings challenges. The next step in learning a new programming language is to build something with it. And so began my dilemma.

I'm learning Rust and solving the rustlings exercises.

Rustlings is a CLI-based open source project of small challenges that help to grow your knowledge of the language.

i can't truly speak to the relative steepness, i think like both rust and c++ can get quite steep depending on what you're doing but can also be simple in other cases. best to just try it out i'd say :) the rustlings guide https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings which parallels the rust book https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ is a good way to learn. doing things like advent of code could also help. the most common hurdles with rust are "lifetimes" and "the borrow checker", and it just takes practice to figure them out

I recommend checking out the Rustlings exercises - they provide a really good overview of approaching concepts in Rust, if you're having difficulty with the docs.

perfect thank you so much for the explanation and for the link i got it working :)

Working through the rustlings exercises

The book is great and was my original introduction to the language, but rustlings or Rust By Example might be more interesting for an interactive (and more self paced) approach.

Rustlings: This is a great resource for getting started with Rust, with small exercises to help you get comfortable reading and writing code.

Along with ziglearn, I also found ziglings useful.

I suggest to learn by fixing tiny broken programs: https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings

+1 for rustlings, which also inspired "ziglings" [1]. Both of these were great resources for quickly & easily learning the basics of their respective languages.

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

Ziglings

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

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