Zig in 30 Minutes

• zig

  816 30,631 10.0 Zig

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

  

Thanks, that was a nice talk.

But the answer there is basically, "if you care about payload, don't use zig's built-in error handling." Which, obviously, you can do, but I'm not convinced it's a great answer!

Even for something as simple as parseInt, it would be nice, I would argue, if it returned, along with InvalidCharacter, _which_ character was invalid. This would enable e.g. very precise indications in messages to the end user of what was wrong with the input.

In general, because currently it's super-ergonomic to return just error codes but more of a pain to return errors w/ payloads, what you'll get in practice is no error payload even when it would be useful, which will end up turning into less-helpful-than-ideal errors for end users, which is contrary to zig's goal of enabling the creation of perfect software. :-)

I found this thread interesting

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647

• pacman.c

  3 470 5.2 C

  Simple Pacman clone written in C99.

Not "serious" at all but I wrote a Pacman clone over the holidays as an excercise and test for my cross-platform C header bindinds:

https://github.com/floooh/pacman.zig

...and before that I did the same in C99 (might be useful for comparing the languages):

https://github.com/floooh/pacman.c

Disclaimer: I'm not a Zig expert at all, and the project doesn't really require most things where Zig differs from C. But I think writing small and "for-fun" projects like this is important for getting used to a language. I think one of Zig's big qualities is that it is so straightforward, after a few hundred lines you hardly have to look up things in the language documentation anymore.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• tigerbeetle

  37 1,012 9.5 Zig

  Discontinued A distributed financial accounting database designed for mission critical safety and performance. [Moved to: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle] (by coilhq)

  

TigerBeetle: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle

We're serious in the sense of very much alpha, and with a long way to go, hopefully intersecting with Zig's stability program... but we have some demos and benchmarks in there of using Zig for io_uring.

• learnxinyminutes-docs

  226 11,163 9.5 JavaScript

  Code documentation written as code! How novel and totally my idea!

Can this be also on learnxinyminutes.com (https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs) ?

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