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ziglua
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Zig's Curious Multi-Sequence for Loops
I’ve absolutely had satisfaction with my several personal projects written in Zig. And based on an imperfect measurement (GitHub stars) I have also had moderate success in making something useful. It’s a terminal fuzzy finder [0]. I also maintain a Zig Lua bindings package [1], and I’m working on a port of an old Macintosh game [2].
Zig is exactly what I want out of a language though, so take my opinion with a grain of salt :)
[0]: https://github.com/natecraddock/zf
[1]: https://github.com/natecraddock/ziglua
[2]: https://github.com/natecraddock/open-reckless-drivin
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How's the current story with Zig in terms of dependancy management and build repeatability?
Zig has a build system (the zig build command) that uses a build.zig file to compile a project. With a git submodule you just add the directory as a package in the build.zig file. Depending on the dependency, there might be a few more steps. For example, for my ziglua library requires adding the package path (so you can @import the zig sources), and also calling the link function which compiles the Lua C source and links with the Zig project.
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Zig is becoming more production-worthy - zigmonthly
ziglua was released, which "takes advantage of Zig's features to make it easier and safer to interact with the Lua API."
- natecraddock/ziglua: Zig bindings for the Lua C API
zig
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Show HN: I made a better Perplexity for developers
It's "Zig" not "Zag". https://ziglang.org/ Zig is under heavy development, but there's a single page https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.12.0/ that is a reasonably comprehensive source of truth about the current state of the language.
- The search for easier safe systems programming
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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
What are some alternatives?
cosmic - A platform for computing and creating applications.
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).
zigimg - Zig library for reading and writing different image formats
Odin - Odin Programming Language
zf - a commandline fuzzy finder designed for filtering filepaths
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
open-reckless-drivin - A work-in-progress open source reimplementation of the classic Macintosh shareware game Reckless Drivin'
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
go - The Go programming language
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!
rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266
TinyGo - Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.