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Interesting. Some unusual syntax in there, with for loops and arrays, for example. What are some more serious projects made with Zig?

flohofwoe 6y ago
Not "serious" at all but I wrote a Pacman clone over the holidays as an excercise and test for my cross-platform C header bindings: https://github.com/floooh/pacman.zig 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 https://github.com/floooh/pacman.c Disclaimer: I'm not a Zig expert at all, and the project doesn't really require most Zig features that differ 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.
- emptyparadise 6y ago
  Thanks! I was using "serious" very loosely, more in a sense of wanting to see the language in action beyond demonstrations and examples.
jorangreef 6y ago
TigerBeetle (an accounting database for a high throughput payments switch): https://github.com/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 in the next year or so, but we have some demos and benchmarks in there of using Zig for io_uring. Zig's std lib already has io_uring helpers based on liburing's design, which we contributed. We would have gone with C for its ABI, OOM-safety and control over memory layout, but considered Zig ready enough given our own medium term timeline, and the developer velocity and safety is already paying off. We also wanted a fantastic compiler, which Zig already provides. I personally wouldn't go back to C for a new project like this.
mkeeter 6y ago
I wrote a shader preview GUI using Zig, Neovim, and WebGPU (basically a desktop Shadertoy). It's named "Futureproof": https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/futureproof/ https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/futureproof/

flohofwoe 6y ago

Not "serious" at all but I wrote a Pacman clone over the holidays as an excercise and test for my cross-platform C header bindings: https://github.com/floooh/pacman.zig 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 https://github.com/floooh/pacman.c Disclaimer: I'm not a Zig expert at all, and the project doesn't really require most Zig features that differ 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.

emptyparadise 6y ago
Thanks! I was using "serious" very loosely, more in a sense of wanting to see the language in action beyond demonstrations and examples.

jorangreef 6y ago

TigerBeetle (an accounting database for a high throughput payments switch): https://github.com/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 in the next year or so, but we have some demos and benchmarks in there of using Zig for io_uring. Zig's std lib already has io_uring helpers based on liburing's design, which we contributed. We would have gone with C for its ABI, OOM-safety and control over memory layout, but considered Zig ready enough given our own medium term timeline, and the developer velocity and safety is already paying off. We also wanted a fantastic compiler, which Zig already provides. I personally wouldn't go back to C for a new project like this.

mkeeter 6y ago

I wrote a shader preview GUI using Zig, Neovim, and WebGPU (basically a desktop Shadertoy). It's named "Futureproof": https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/futureproof/ https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/futureproof/