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Reviews and mentions
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To Learn a New Language, Read Its Standard Library
Ziglings [0] is a series of small problems where you solve bugs in Zig code, and I enjoyed working through them. The readme claims "you are not expected to have any prior experience with... C." When I did ziglings I found the most difficult part was adjusting to the type syntax (which I now love).
I admittedly know C very well, but assuming you already know a language with a C-like syntax (C++, Java, JavaScript, C#, Rust, etc.) most things like functions, control flow, variables, statements map to Zig with only small syntactic differences.
One thing that may be difficult to learn not knowing C is working with strings, since they are just arrays of bytes. Most other languages have a string type, but Zig is much more like C in that strings are null-terminated fixed-sized arrays of bytes.
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Will the learning curve be smooth?
Also check out Ziglings, it's a tiny terminal game/tutorial wherein you fix errors in increasingly complex Zig programs, with plenty of whys and why-nots helping you learn the fundamentals.
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Learning Zig as a C# developer
Ziglings is a more playful way of learning zig and both work quite abit complementary. Personally I think ziglearn leans towards assuming more low level and prequisite knowledge of programming.
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Would zig be a good fit for me?
You want Ziglings: https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings
- Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig
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I am building a repository in github which I intend to fill with resources to learn C in a feasible way with source codes as well as Theories . I would appreciate If anyone wants to collaborate .
You might consider making a repository like this for C.
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Rust Koans
:) I am currently working through https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings for Zig.
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How does Modern C++ (C++20) compare with Rust?
Like Rust, but don't expect it to follow in all the footsteps of C++ and the same happens with Zig at this current moment in my studies. https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings
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Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
https://ziglearn.org/ (the most comprehensive learning resource right now - disclaimer: mine) https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings/ (something a lot more narrative/exercise based) https://ziglaunch.org/
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I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
Some context on the issues you pointed (all true, to be clear):
> * no (official) package manager yet, though this is aparently being worked on
It's the next item on the roadmap as soon as the self-hosted compiler is good enough.
> * documentation is often incomplete and lacking
The language reference is good, but for the stblib it's best to just read the source code. For other miscellaneous learning materials:
https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings
https://www.youtube.com/c/ZigSHOWTIME
* error handling with inferred error sets and `try` is very nice! But for now errors can't hold any data, they are just identifiers, which is often insufficient for good error reporting or handling.
It's still under debate and I'm personally in the camp that errors should not have a payload, so I would avoid assuming that it's definitely the preferable choice. We already have a couple of existing patterns for when diagnostics are needed. That said proposals about adding support for error payloads are still open, so who knows.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7812
Existing pattern: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647#issuecomment-5898...
> * No closures! (big gotcha)
It's possible to create closures already (by declaring a struct type with a method (the closure) and instantiating it immediately after), but it's a clunky solution. We also have an open proposal in this space:
- Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
- Ziglings: Learn to read and write Zig
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ratfactor/ziglings is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
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