Porting a simple Mark-Sweep Garbage Collector to Zig

• zig

  816 30,631 10.0 Zig

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

  

How to read the standard library source code

• zig-mark-sweep-gc

  2 4 0.0 Zig

  :broom: Zig port of Bob Nystrom's simple mark-sweep GC

I recently completed my first Zig project - a port of Bob Nystrom's simple mark-sweep garbage collector (a modern classic!) from C to Zig.

• WorkOS

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• mark-sweep

  11 702 10.0 C

  A simple mark-sweep garbage collector in C

This post explains a few parts of the program but I can't do justice to Bob's original article which I highly recommend reading. His C implementation is included in the project repo and is also available on GitHub.

• zig.vim

  6 398 5.0 Vim Script

  Vim configuration for Zig

  

Out of the box Vim works well enough as an editor for Zig but the experience is a bit underwhelming. So I installed the Vim configuration for Zig plugin get syntax highlighting.

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