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｢ Rather than introducing complex features, Odin focuses on code that is simple and clean to read and reason about. This is the polar opposite of Zig’s embracing of metaprogramming for as much as possible ｣

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Zig 語言的記憶體安全特性
➤ Zig 語言如何打造更安全的記憶體管理
✤ https://gencmurat.com/en/posts/memory-safety-features-in-zig/
本文深入探討了 Zig 程式語言的記憶體安全特性。Zig 在提供手動記憶體管理效能的同時，透過消除隱藏控制流程、健全的錯誤處理機制、嚴格的編譯時檢查、以及強大的執行時界線檢查等方式，有效預防常見的記憶體相關錯誤。此外，Zig 的 `defer` 語句確保資源能被妥善釋放，而可選類型則避免了空指標解參問題。Zig 也提供了多種構建模式，允許開發者在安全性與效能之間取得平衡。
+ 這篇文章很清楚地說明瞭 Zig 語言在記憶體安全方面的設計理念，讓我對這個語言產生了興趣。
+ Zig 的錯誤處理機制看起來非常健全，避免了許多其他語言常見的潛在問題。
#程式語言 #記憶體安全 #Zig

Memory Safety Features in Zig

https://gencmurat.com/en/posts/memory-safety-features-in-zig/

Memory Safety Features in Zig via @vpol https://lobste.rs/s/xnyrve #zig
https://gencmurat.com/en/posts/memory-safety-features-in-zig/

OCaml cross-compilation: an experiment https://lobste.rs/s/hj8xyd #ml #zig
https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/ocaml-cross-compilation-an-experiment

How did I not know of sr-speedbar? I used imenu-list for this use-case previously, but this is so much nicer.

Required a tiny configuration to work with #zig but now works flawlessly.

lsr: the fastest version of ls

https://tangled.sh/@rockorager.dev/lsr

Implementing a Struct of Arrays https://lobste.rs/s/tfomzp #c++ #zig
https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/05/02/soa/

Wrote a minimal Linux shell in C and Zig (no dynamic mem allocation). The aim is to see how small can we get the binary size to.
C version uses no stdlib, just syscalls using inline assembly.
Zig already does a pretty good job exposing the syscall wrappers, so using std.os.linux.syscallN wrappers.
Learned a lot about the "newer" syscalls e.g
- clone3 instead of fork/clone for spawning new child process
- getdents64 instead of the libc readdir
- newfstatat for checking file info
- Need to try openat2 vs openat

zig toolchain is very good at building minimal binaries. Even compiling the C code using `zig cc` gives smaller binary sizes. Currently, both C and Zig are at 5kb each.

Code: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/5046b60ca2d040bcffb49ee38e86041f

“Things Zig comptime Won’t Do”, Aleksey Kladov (https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744591

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/yhtpk0/things_zig_comptime_won_t_do

On /r/zig: https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/1k6d3rr/things_zig_comptime_wont_do/

“Zig-Style Generics Are Not Well-Suited For Most Languages” [2022], Varun Gandhi (https://typesanitizer.com/blog/zig-generics.html).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33142751

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/jktewn/zig_style_generics_are_not_well_suited_for

On /r/programming: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xzqxu6/zigstyle_generics_are_not_wellsuited_for_most/

One of my first #Git repositories I ever pushed to #GitHub was a #Windows #Keylogger written in C++. After 15 years I rewrote the project in #Zig: https://github.com/TheFox/keylogger

Swarm Testing Data Structures https://lobste.rs/s/xuaafo #testing #zig
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-04-23-swarm-testing-data-structures/

Tonight at 9 PM Eastern, I'll be getting back to #Zig! The emulator is going to need graphics, so we'll start with just getting something on the screen.

I'll be trying to get raylib running on Linux, which I have failed to do once, but succeeded on Mac.

It'll be exciting!

https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3

Good news for all you who prefer to zig when others zag.

Rome Stone has written a Zig SDK for our geocoding API:

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/zig-sdk-for-the-opencage-geocoding-api

Things #Zig comptime Won’t Do

https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html

pretty stoked having pushed a huge update to https://github.com/stef/klutshnik

it is now all based on liboprf.

rewrote the server in #zig, the python client has also been completely rewritten. threw out the macaroons and the opaque-storage back-end, this simplified and made the whole thing a bit more secure also.

still some work left before this can go into production, but this is a big leap already. pheeew.

this work is funded by #nlnet / #ngi0

Damn! I have this #zig 0.11 program and I need to update the build.zig file...

It was a pain to write and now I have to rewrite the whole thing... and everything changed...

EDIT: ok i think i made it to compile but I think many things are repeated for no reason. I need to review the file.

4200 #zig lines written