sokol-samples
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sokol-samples
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Zig cookbook: collection of simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices
Zig currently doesn't allow chained designators and also doesn't allow to partially initialize arrays and fill up the rest of the array with default values.
E.g. the closest Zig equivalent to this C99 code:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/b3bc55c4411fa03...
...is this:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/blob/a4b3c287fadd153a504...
...note how part of the initialization had to be moved out into "code".
There's a ticket about this here, but it's currently not high-priority:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6068
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Building a Web Game in C with Raylib
This is a simple Pong-like I've written in Raylib compiled to WASM - https://wasm-stuff.netlify.app/pong
Source code is here: https://github.com/rrampage/skitter/tree/master/pong-raylib
It is fairly straightforward to get Raylib running in the browser. I used @flohofwoe's HTML shell file ( https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/master/webpage/... ).
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Learn WebGPU
PS: also if shader functions could be directly defined "inline" in regular CPU code (and behind a special function pointer type), there would be no need for string literal shenanigans like this:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/3f10c1a0620cec9...
(and shader compilation would happen during the regular build and would also generate regular compiler errors - with current toolchains that's only possible with a lot of build system magic)
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Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC
I think something along those lines (rarely used...) was also given by the C++ Committee as justification why so much of the C99 designated init feature set was left out of C++20. But in reality, all C99 designated-init 'sub-features' complement each other nicely once you start using them. It's a great way for building 'data-driven' APIs.
For instance check out this call to create a 3D-API pipeline-state-object in C99:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/ad9047e228a8441...
- C in Web Dev
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Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
I'm using anonymous nested structs extensively for grouping struct items, but I consider the extra field name a feature, not something that should be hidden:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/bfb30ea00b5948f...
(also note the 'inplace initialization' which follows the state struct definition using C99's designated initialization)
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Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C
It's an STB-style single-file library, which means the implementation is in a separate ifdef-block from the interface declarations, this allows to compile the implemenentation in a separate source file (which can be a C file), and be used in different source files (which can be C++ files).
For example (using stb_image.h):
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/master/libs/stb...
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Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
C99 has made all that a lot easier, you can setup, initialize a struct and call the function taking a pointer to that struct all in one call:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/89f5825ab5d3690...
The Win32 window system functions and D3D11 are actually very convenient to work with in C99, better than C++ actually.
zig
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Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig. (2021)
There is an issue proposing this approach: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4284
- Zig Programming Language
- Zig Language 0.12 Release
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Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224
e.g.:
> > When debugging/prototyping, it's useful to comment out a line without having to refactor, e.g.
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How to Write a PHP Extension with Zig?
When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).
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Bun - The One Tool for All Your JavaScript/Typescript Project's Needs?
NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.
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Bun 1.1
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()
There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11894
- Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
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Nanos – A Unikernel
Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]
[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
- Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
What are some alternatives?
sokol-zig - Zig bindings for the sokol headers (https://github.com/floooh/sokol)
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL
Odin - Odin Programming Language
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
libev - Full-featured high-performance event loop loosely modelled after libevent
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
go - The Go programming language
ArrayFire - ArrayFire: a general purpose GPU library.
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!