RESOURCES.md

Zig Resources ↩

This document gathers Zig related resources that caught our attention.

Articles

• Meet Zig: The modern alternative to C by Matthew Tyson, March 2023.

Blogs ▴

• Hashimoto's Blog posts :
  • Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig, September 2024.
  • Conditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in Zig, September 2024.
  • Zig Build System Internals, February 2022.
• Dayvster Blog posts :
  • Builing Blocks of Zig: Unions, June 2024.
  • Building Block of Zig: Slices, June 2024.
  • Zig is The Next Big Programming Language, May 2024.
  • Zig Allocators Explained, May 2024.
• Karl Seguin's Blog posts :
  • Leveraging Zig's Allocators, June 2024.
  • Zig: Freeing resources referenced in multiple threads, May 2024.
  • Writing a task scheduler in Zig, May 2024.
  • Error Handling in Zig, August 2023.
• Andrew Kelley's Blog posts :
  • Zig's New CLI Progress Bar Explained, May 2024.
• Bahlo's Blog posts :
  • Writing an SDK in Zig (Part 1), May 2024.
  • Thoughts on Zig, May 2024.
• Introduction to Zig, a Potential Heir to C by David Eastman, January 2024.
• After a day of programming in Zig by Michael Lohr, December 2023.
• Broch Blog – Programming :
  • Zig vs JavaScript by Asher White, October 2023.
  • C# vs Zig by Asher White, October 2023.
  • Rust vs Zig by Asher White, March 2023.
  • Optimizing a JSON parser in Zig by Asher, March 2023.
• Getting started with the Zig programming language by Shalitha Suranga, August 2023.
• Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them by Aryan Ebrahimpour, June 2023.
• Dayvi Schuster's Blog posts :
  • Read Directory Contents With Zig, October 2024.
  • Building Blocks Of Zig: slices, June 2024.
  • Zig Allocators Explained, May 2024.
• Zig Interfaces for the Uninitiated, an update by Kilian Vounckx, February 2022.
• Big Integers in Zig by Marc Tiehuis, May 2018.
• Iterative Replacement of C with Zig by Marc Tiehuis, July 2017.

News ▴

• Zig News – the official Zig news channel.
• Zig NEWS – a community of Zig programmers.
  • Type-safe Tagged Pointers with comptime, September 2024.
  • Zig C/C++ Compiler, July 2023.
  • zig build explained - part 3, November 2021.
  • zig build explained - part 2, August 2021.
  • zig build explained - part 1, July 2021.
• Ziggit – a forum for Zig programmers.

Projects

• GitHub – nrdmn/awesome-zig.
• Ziglings – Learn the ⚡Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

Tools

• Zap – a blazingly fast and robust HTTP server (based on facil.io).
• zig-clap – a comand line argument parsing library.
• zigup – download and manage Zig compilers.
• zigwin32 – Zig bindings for the Win32 API.

Tutorials

• Learn Zig Programming Language.
• Learning Zig.
• Zig Cookbook.
• Zig Crash Course, May 2024.
• Zig Guide – Get up to speed with Zig quickly.
• ZigVS – Zig language support for Visual Studio.

Videos ▴

• Zig Master by Dude the Builder :

  • Zig Master: Struct Layout, June 2024.
  • Zig Master: Slices, May 2024.
  • Zig Master: Arrays, May 2024.

• Zig in Depth by Dude the Builder :

  • Zig in Depth: anytype, November 2023.
  • Zig in Depth: comptime Part II, November 2023.
  • Zig in Depth: comptime Part I, November 2023.
  • Zig in Depth: Blocks and switch, October 2023.

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