Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs

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  1. ziglings

    Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

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  3. awesome-by-example

    😎 A curated list of example-based learning resources.

    I love these sorts of resources! I just created an "awesome list" [1] to keep track of resources specifically centered around learning by example. I've only got a few so far, several of them being from this thread. Contributions welcome!

    [1]: https://github.com/b0o/awesome-by-example

  4. zig

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

    This a simplified example to say that each path that depends on a comptime condition, such as the target OS, for example, feels intuitively consistent but in Zig types can (and do) mutate depending on those conditions and if the compiler were to eagerly check dead branches it would find plenty of semantical errors. In the stdlib you can see how `os` corresponds to a different struct definition depending on the target: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/os.zig#L5...

  5. awesome-zig

    A few folks are working on gameboy emulators: https://github.com/nrdmn/awesome-zig#emulators

  6. xtensa-zig

    Zig built against xtensa fork of LLVM for targetting ESP32

    Zig is still "not production ready," embedded is still rough, and you might have to contribute to Ziglang itself to get any particular architecture working appropriately. That said, yes people are using Zig a little for embedded stuff:

    https://codelv.com/blog/2020/5/using-zig-and-the-stm32h7-to-...

    https://www.mdeditor.tw/pl/2Ap9

    Xtensa is less supported. M0 might also have some issues: https://github.com/Schroedingers-Hat/xtensa-zig

    I've been meaning to try it out for embedded myself; I'll let you know how it goes.

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