Hacker News with Generative AI: Zig

How (memory) safe is Zig? (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
I keep seeing discussions that equate zig's level of memory safety with c (or occasionally with rust!). Neither is particularly accurate. This is an attempt at a more detailed breakdown.
Programming Languages, Memory Safety, Zig, C, Rust
38 points by vortex_ape 10 days ago | 84 comments
Bold : A Drop-In Replacement For Apple System Linker Written In Zig (github.com/kubkon)
bold is a drop-in replacement for Apple system linker ld, written fully in Zig.
Programming, Zig, Apple, Operating Systems, Compilers
4 points by signa11 13 days ago | 0 comments
Memory Safety Features in Zig (gencmurat.com)
Memory safety is a cornerstone of Zig’s design philosophy. While maintaining the performance benefits of manual memory management, Zig incorporates sophisticated safety mechanisms to prevent common memory-related errors. This article provides an in-depth exploration of Zig’s memory safety features with detailed examples and explanations.
Programming Languages, Memory Safety, Zig, Performance
11 points by hmac1282 14 days ago | 4 comments
Memory Safety Features in Zig (gencmurat.com)
Memory safety is a cornerstone of Zig’s design philosophy. While maintaining the performance benefits of manual memory management, Zig incorporates sophisticated safety mechanisms to prevent common memory-related errors. This article provides an in-depth exploration of Zig’s memory safety features with detailed examples and explanations.
Programming Languages, Memory Safety, Zig
11 points by todsacerdoti 15 days ago | 1 comments
Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer (validark.dev)
Today, I am excited to announce the alpha release of a brand new compacting Zig tokenizer!
Programming, Zig, Software
5 points by birdculture 32 days ago | 0 comments
Things Zig comptime won't do (matklad.github.io)
Zig’s comptime feature is most famous for what it can do: generics!, conditional compilation!, subtyping!, serialization!, ORM! That’s fascinating, but, to be fair, there’s a bunch of languages with quite powerful compile time evaluation capabilities that can do equivalent things. What I find more interesting is that Zig comptime is actually quite restrictive, by design, and won’t do many things! It manages to be very expressive despite being pretty limited. Let’s see!
Programming Languages, Zig, Compilers
466 points by JadedBlueEyes 33 days ago | 243 comments
Things Zig Comptime Won't Do (matklad.github.io)
Zig’s comptime feature is most famous for what it can do: generics!, conditional compilation!, subtyping!, serialization!, ORM! That’s fascinating, but, to be fair, there’s a bunch of languages with quite powerful compile time evaluation capabilities that can do equivalent things. What I find more interesting is that Zig comptime is actually quite restrictive, by design, and won’t do many things! It manages to be very expressive despite being pretty limited. Let’s see!
Programming Languages, Zig, Compilers
10 points by ingve 34 days ago | 1 comments
Zig and GPUs (alichraghi.github.io)
GPU programming used to mean wrangling C++ compilers, bloated SDKs, and vendor-specific toolchains. That’s changing. You can now write GPU code in modern languages like Rust and Zig with fewer layers. This post walks through the current state of Zig’s GPU backends and how they stack up across Vulkan, OpenCL, and native ISAs.
GPU Programming, Programming Languages, Zig, Vulkan, OpenCL
57 points by Cloudef 35 days ago | 11 comments
Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig (github.com/zerotech-studio)
Welcome to Zack! This project is a lightweight yet powerful backtesting engine for trading strategies, written entirely in Zig ⚡. It allows you to test your trading ideas against historical market data to see how they might have performed.
Programming, Trading, Backtesting, Zig
85 points by sksxihve 37 days ago | 8 comments
A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language (github.com/Validark)
A high-throughput tokenizer and parser (soon™️) for the Zig programming language.
Programming, Zig, Parsing, Tools
146 points by jedisct1 37 days ago | 16 comments
Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr) (openmymind.net)
In a recent, post-Zig 0.14 commit, Zig's SinglyLinkedList and DoublyLinkedList saw significant changes.
Programming, New Releases, Data Structures, Zig
227 points by todsacerdoti 39 days ago | 178 comments
Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing (github.com/williamw520)
TopoSort is a highly efficient Zig library for performing topological sort on dependency graph.
Programming, Parallel Processing, Zig, Libraries, Graphs
114 points by ww520 52 days ago | 47 comments
Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig (calabro.io)
This is a short post about how to create a statically linked Go executable that calls in to CGO dependencies using Zig.
Go, Static Linking, CGO, Zig
144 points by todsacerdoti 56 days ago | 23 comments
Dead Simple Snapshot Testing in Zig (kristoff.it)
I’ve recently added snapshot testing support to Zine, my static site generator, and I’ll share here how to get a similar setup going for your projects.
Testing, Programming, Zig
5 points by todsacerdoti 64 days ago | 0 comments
Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust (crates.io)
Rust, Zig, Programming Languages
466 points by klaussilveira 65 days ago | 195 comments
Zig's dot star syntax (value.*) (openmymind.net)
Maybe I'm the only one, but it always takes my little brain a split second to understand what's happening whenever I see, or have to write, something like value.* = .{...}.
Programming, Zig, Syntax
113 points by todsacerdoti 77 days ago | 124 comments
Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)
Zig 0.14.0 implements an accepted proposal which allows switch statements to be labeled, and to be targeted by continue statements.
Programming Languages, Zig, Software, New Releases
91 points by tauoverpi 79 days ago | 16 comments
No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig (ziglang.org)
No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
Programming Languages, Performance, Zig
30 points by zdw 104 days ago | 1 comments
No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig (ziglang.org)
No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
Programming, Zig, Performance
24 points by grayhatter 105 days ago | 10 comments
Sets and Bitsets, from Python to Zig (eno-writer.com)
It's been over a year since I switched from programming in high level languages (python and javascript) to programming in a low level language (zig). Supposedly, high level languages are much easier to work with than low level languages, but I've been surprised by how infrequently I've felt myself longing for the expressiveness of python. In fact, last week was the first time I actually found myself having to switch to python to figure something out.
Programming Languages, Python, Zig
3 points by gcassie 106 days ago | 0 comments
Zig; what I think after months of using it (strongly-typed-thoughts.net)
Ah, Zig. I have a love-hate relationship with this one. A “new” (reading: appeared a couple years ago, already — yes, already), language with high ambitions. Zig was made to run at low-level, with a simple design to solve many problems C has (macros, allocators, error handling, more powerful types like baked-in tagged unions and bitsets, a better build system, no hidden control flow, etc.).
Programming Languages, Software Development, C, Zig
197 points by uaksom 108 days ago | 175 comments
Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig (github.com)
Roc's compiler has always been written in Rust, and we do not plan to self-host.
Programming Languages, Rust, Zig
359 points by todsacerdoti 108 days ago | 301 comments
In Zig, what's a writer? (openmymind.net)
I find Zig's idea of a "writer" confusing. This is probably because there are three different types, each trying to compensate for compromises made by the others. Let's try to understand what each is and how it fits into a bigger whole.
Programming Languages, Zig, Software Development
140 points by todsacerdoti 115 days ago | 73 comments
Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig (github.com/lightpanda-io)
Lightpanda is the open-source browser made for headless usage:
Open Source, Programming Languages, Browsers, Zig
319 points by fbouvier 119 days ago | 137 comments
Zig: What to Expect from Release Month (ziglang.org)
Programming Languages, Zig, Software Releases
130 points by enz 126 days ago | 58 comments
Zig's comptime is bonkers good (scottredig.com)
Programming has obvious abilities to increase productivity through automated manipulation of data. Metaprogramming allows code to be treated as data, turning programming’s power back onto itself. Programming close to the metal has perhaps the most to gain from metaprogramming as high level concepts need to be mapped precisely to low level operations. Yet outside of functional languages I’ve always found the metaprogramming story to be a disappointment.
Programming, Metaprogramming, Zig
469 points by todsacerdoti 137 days ago | 265 comments
I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig (jonot.me)
The Game Boy Advance is an interesting game console. It has a modern-style CPU (32-bit ARM, lots of registers), but uses an old-fashioned tile based renderer like how the NES did it in the 80s.
Game Development, Programming Languages, Retro Gaming, Zig
334 points by tehnub 144 days ago | 142 comments
When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust (zackoverflow.dev)
There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.
Programming Languages, Rust, Zig, Performance, Security
108 points by jandrewrogers 148 days ago | 55 comments
Show HN: My terminal learned a new trick (Colors in Zig) (github.com/NishantJoshi00)
Color Show is a Zig utility that renders solid-color rectangles directly in the terminal using the Kitty graphics protocol. Simply pass hexadecimal color codes as command-line arguments to display vibrant color blocks.
Programming, Terminal Emulators, Color, Zig
10 points by cat-whisperer 149 days ago | 1 comments
Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig? (injuly.in)
Few things keep me up at night more than the untapped potential in current developer tooling.
Programming, JavaScript, Zig, Developer Tools
71 points by signa11 181 days ago | 95 comments