Zig in 30 Minutes

Re:Zig in 30 Minutes by flohofwoe on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:57AM (#25620807)

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

...and before that I did the same in C99 (might be useful for comparing the languages):

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.

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Re:Zig in 30 Minutes by emptyparadise on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:22AM (#25620900)

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

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