ziglyph
dstep
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ziglyph
- What are your favorite utility libraries?
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Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
> My big problem with Zig is that Andrew Kelley is promising a lot of features, but doesn't really deliver much.
Have you, like, seen the release notes for 0.9.0?
https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html
> Zig still can't proper handle UTF-8 strings [1] in 2022
There's plenty of discussion on the subject in basically every HN thread about Zig: the stdlib has some utf8 and wtf validation code, ziglyph implements the full unicode spec.
https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph
You might not like how it's done, but its factually incorrect to state that Zig can't handle unicode.
> In a `recent` interview[2], he claims that Zig is faster than C and Rust, but he refers to extremely short benchmarking that has almost no value in the real world.
From my reddit reply to this same topic:
This podcast interview might not be the best showcase of the practical implications of Zig's take on safety and performance. If you want something with more meat, I highly recommend Andrew's recent talk from Handmade Seattle, where he shows the work being done on the Zig self-hosted compiler.
https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-d...
Lots of bit fiddling that can't be fully proven safe statically, but then you get a compiler capable of compiling Zig code stupidly fast, and that's even without factoring in incremental compilation with in-place binary patching, with which we're aiming for sub-millisecond rebuilds of arbitrarily large projects.
> The ecosystem for zig is insignificant now and a stable release would help the language.
I hope you don't mind if we don't take this advice, given the overall tone of your post.
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Resizable string in Zig?
For Unicode text processing you can take a look at Ziglyph https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph and for a sample UTF-8 string structure, Zigstr https://github.com/jecolon/zigstr . (bias alert: I'm the author of both. :^D )
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Maintain It with Zig
Agreed, and Zig also has a lib for that as well:
https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph/
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Unicode data file compression: achieving 40-70% reduction over gzip alone
Yes, sorry about that - I omitted a bit of that information for brevity.
If you want to play with allkeys.txt (which is by far much more sequential, simpler data than UnicodeData.txt) then you only need to remove the non-NFD strings (since the Unicode Collation Algorithm's first step requires you to decompose the string's code points to canonical NFD form), that removes ~2,000 entries.
The full file parser code, which strips those out and other useless information like comments and version information can be found here: https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph/blob/main/src/collator/Al...
If you want to play around with UnicodeData.txt (which is less sequential, more complex data) then only two fields are used (the code point and decomposition field), and only records where the second field is not empty (the full decomposition type name in angle brackets is not needed, only whether it is or is not there is important.)
The full parser code for that file can be found here: https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph/blob/main/src/normalizer/...
Hope that helps!
dstep
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I want to install a package globally
You might also be interested in dstep, a tool that can generate D bindings from C header files.
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Maintain It with Zig
- C, Objective-C = https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
> its test blocks make unit testing trivial to integrate.
Again, D also has this:
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/unittesting
void main() {
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Raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
It's a C lib, generating bindings is super easy https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
There is no need to maintain bindings that can be automatically generated, wich can easily get outdated if the C project is actively developped
Anyways, someone went a ahead and updated it: https://github.com/Soaku/raylib-d
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I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
Not quite as seamless as Zig, but dstep is an external program that leverages libclang to do the same thing (and generates a D module for you), as well as e.g., smartly convert #define macros to inlineable templates functions :)
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
What are some alternatives?
zig-string - A String Library made for Zig
arocc - A C compiler written in Zig.
zigstr - Zigstr is a UTF-8 string type for Zig programs.
utfcpp - UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way
RIIR - why not Rewrite It In Rust
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
mach - zig game engine & graphics toolkit
jotai-benchmarks - Collection of executable benchmarks