zig-clap
known-folders
zig-clap | known-folders | |
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3 | 1 | |
978 | 234 | |
- | 2.1% | |
7.7 | 7.5 | |
13 days ago | 4 months ago | |
Zig | Zig | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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zig-clap
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After a day of programming in Zig
Zig and Rust both promote explicit error handling, however their mechanisms are different. Rust uses Result enums, while Zig uses a (global) error set type (though similar to an enum) and error propagation. Similarly, Rust uses the Option enum for optional types, while Zig uses a type modifier (?T). Both offer modern, syntactic sugar to handle those (call()? and if let Some(value) = optional {} in Rust, try call() and if (optional) |value| {} in Zig). Since Rust uses the standard library to implement error handling and options, users have the possibility to extend those systems which is quite powerful. However, I like the approach Zig takes in providing those things as language features. While their approach fits well into the C universe, I dislike that there is no pragmatic way to add more context to an error (but well, no allocations). Libraries like [clap](https://github.com/Hejsil/zig-clap) solve this by implementing a diagnostics mechanism.
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Is it too early to use Zig for CLI tooling ideas?
It's somewhat early, but there are libraries like https://github.com/Hejsil/zig-clap that can make writing CLIs a bit easier.
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Docco for printing, getting input, cmdline args?
Command line args: std.process or the zig-clap library
known-folders
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Allow download in build flake's build phase.
zig-overlay.url = "github:mitchellh/zig-overlay"; zig-overlay.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; gitignore.url = "github:hercules-ci/gitignore.nix"; gitignore.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils"; known-folders.url = "https://github.com/ziglibs/known-folders/archive/53fe3b676f32e59d46f4fd201d7ab200e5f6cb98.tar.gz"; known-folders.flake = false; tres.url = "https://github.com/ziglibs/tres/archive/d8b0c24a945da02fffdae731edd1903c6889e73c.tar.gz"; tres.flake = false; diffz.url = "https://github.com/ziglibs/diffz/archive/efc91679b000a2d7f86fb40930f0a95a0d349bff.tar.gz"; diffz.flake = false;
What are some alternatives?
zig-args - Simple-to-use argument parser with struct-based config
zig-range - A range function to loop over an index without an extra variable.
sdk - TinyVG software development kit
zigimg - Zig library for reading and writing different image formats
zig-rocca-s - An implementation of the ROCCA-S encryption scheme.
meduza - Zig codebase graph generator.
mach-gpu-dawn - Google's Dawn WebGPU implementation, cross-compiled with Zig into a single static library
zig-dns - Experimental DNS library implemented in zig
zig-win32 - Bindings for win32, with and without WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
protozig - The protozig(uana), or protocol buffers implementation in Zig