Long story short: I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig

• zig

  816 30,631 10.0 Zig

  General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  

The Zig Programming Language Discord has a zig-help channel that's pretty responsive if you're ok with Discord. The archive is searchable.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community#discord-englis....

GitHub's code search beta is a good way to find out how other people are doing things with Zig, if you have access to it. For example:

https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=http+pat...

Some less-known walkthroughs for those new to Zig but comfortable in other languages:

- A half-hour to learn Zig: https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac1...

- Zig Crash Course: https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/zig/zig-crash-course/

You can also see how other people have solved problems you might have:

https://github.com/catdevnull/awesome-zig

• zaml

  2 92 0.0 Zig

  🚀 Fast YAML 1.2 parsing library for Python 3 (by adamserafini)

It’s also possible to write Python extensions in Zig: https://github.com/adamserafini/zaml

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• awesome-zig

  4 317 6.6

  A list of awesome projects related to Zig (by catdevnull)

The Zig Programming Language Discord has a zig-help channel that's pretty responsive if you're ok with Discord. The archive is searchable.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community#discord-englis....

GitHub's code search beta is a good way to find out how other people are doing things with Zig, if you have access to it. For example:

https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=http+pat...

Some less-known walkthroughs for those new to Zig but comfortable in other languages:

- A half-hour to learn Zig: https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac1...

- Zig Crash Course: https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/zig/zig-crash-course/

You can also see how other people have solved problems you might have:

https://github.com/catdevnull/awesome-zig

• simd-json-ruby

  1 1 4.0 Rust

  An experiment in creating a Ruby wrapper over simd-json library in Rust

I’d be interested in it as well. I imagine the author talks about Rust being hard, cause extending Ruby with Rust doesn’t seem problematic. Here is an example of simd json extension written in Rust using Rutie: https://github.com/drogus/simd-json-ruby/blob/main/src/lib.r...

It has a bunch of macros that are rather straightforward to use

• anyolite

  6 159 6.4 Crystal

  Embedded mruby/Ruby for Crystal

  

You can call Ruby script in Crystal though. [0]

And I think Zig would be easier to maintain compare to Rust because it is a simpler language. Sure there is a lot of breaking changes, but it's not much of trouble for a language that can be read in one afternoon (referring to the single page document).

[0]: https://github.com/Anyolite/anyolite

• www.ziglang.org

  4 234 9.8 HTML
  

FWIW regarding the package manager, based on the rest of the text my guess is that whoever wrote this intended to say that "Zig will ship with a package manager".

I created https://github.com/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/pull/228 let's see if it gets accepted :)

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