• Chapter 1
  • 1.2.1
  • 1.2.2
  • 1.2.3
  • 1.2.4
  • 1.3
  • 1.4
  • 1.4.4
  • 1.4.6
  • 1.7
  • 1.8

Chapter 1

1.2.1

• Built in build tool is nice

  • I have mixed feelings about the build tool taking in a build script, rather than using a toml/json/etc config file.

1.2.2

• Really like test as a keyword rather than a module. example

1.2.3

• Using a bang to indicate a possible exception is interesting. Not sure if I love it, will need to play with it, but it's certainly terse. example
• It is kinda neat that you can try without a follow up catch.

1.2.4

• Feels like a lot of commands to get a test. Gonna miss cargo run.

1.3

• No thanks

  I personally think that, the best way of reading Zig code is to read the source code of the Zig Standard Library.

• zig.news being down is weird, wonder what happened there?

1.4

• Don't like that var is mutable by default. Really do prefer default immutability.

  • Yeah I know I can const, but it's the principle.

1.4.4

• "you must mutate" feels like such a weird rule.

1.4.6

• Gonna be hard to go back to manually defining the size of arrays. [_] here I come.

1.7

• Labeled blocks are cool

1.8

• Woah, is that really what you have to do to write to stdout?

    const std = @import("std");
  
    pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
        var stdout_buffer: [1024]u8 = undefined;
        var stdout_writer = std.Io.File.stdout().writer(init.io, &stdout_buffer);
        const stdout = &stdout_writer.interface;
        const string_object = "This is an example of string literal in Zig";
        try stdout.print("{d}\n", .{string_object.len});
        try stdout.flush();
    }

• Sentinel terminated arrays sound so academic. Given all the criticisms of how hard and complicated Rust is, with Zig as a frequent alternative, I am surprised to see how academic this feels.

• Have feelings about the choice to use the word "America" as the katakana example:

  In the example below, we loop through the japanese characters “アメリカ”.

• Feel like it's strange to put the string library functions into the memory std lib… but I assume that's because they're not actually string specific?