Zig

Using Zig 0.11 in 2023

Zig has a package manager

As of this writing, October 6 2023, the package manager is currently being worked on for the next release: 0.12.

Here are some relevant Github links detailing that work:

”To use a package that’s been prepared for the new Zig package manager, you just need to list it in the dependencies section.”

Zon. It uses files such as build.zig.zon which contains a zig anonymous struct. Example:

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// because zon file is really just a zig struct
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// comments are really done in the same way using 2 forward slashes
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.{
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    // the name of your project
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    .name = "my-wtf-project",
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    // the version of your project
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    .version = "0.0.1",
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    // the actual packages you need as dependencies of your project
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    .dependencies = .{
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        // the name of the package
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        .zap = .{
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            // the url to the release of the module
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            .url = "https://github.com/zigzap/zap/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.7-pre.tar.gz",
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            // the hash of the module, this is not the checksum of the tarball
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            .hash = "1220002d24d73672fe8b1e39717c0671598acc8ec27b8af2e1caf623a4fd0ce0d1bd",
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        },
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    }
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}

run zig init-exe
edit files
zig build
See dir zig-out/bin

Zig concurrency

TODO

Zig Memory alocation

TODO

For loops

For loops recently changed in Zig

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const std = @import("std");
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pub fn main() void {
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    const name = "Josey";
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    for (name, 0..) |char, i| {
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        _ = char;
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        std.debug.print("{c}\n", .{name[i]});
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    }
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    var elems = [_][]const u8{ "water", "earth", "fire", "air" };
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    var nats = [_][]const u8{ "tribes", "kingdom", "nation", "nomads" };
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    for (elems, nats) |e, n| {
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        std.debug.print("{s} {s}\n", .{ e, n });
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    }
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}