Zig Notes

• zig caveats
• zig q&a
• zig gems
• zig oddities
• zig scandals

zig basics

• zig fmt with formatting hints
• correctness
• string type conversions

zig build

• add build options and build information
• build with libasan - the address sanitizer, or -fsanitize=address
• build with docs, and view docs
• vendoring dependencies
• cross-compiling with dependencies
• confirming code generation

memory management

• the nil allocator
• statically-allocated lists

design

• advocacy - say something nice
• #17198 - replace anytype
• What is the status of async? (FAQ)
• why was varargs replaced with tuples? (FAQ)

zig libraries

• Minimum Viable Zig Regex

zig links

• https://github.com/pedropark99/zig-book - as of Oct 2024, all other books on Amazon are AI scams.
• Zig Cookbook
• Programming With Zig - another book in progress
• https://www.openmymind.net/ - blog

other communities

• ziggit.dev
• zig.news
• stackoverflow

other links

• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% - sscanf() for parsing JSON -> 63k strlen()s of a 10MB file