Introduction to Zig: a project-based book - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

An introductory and technical book for Zig, a new general purpose and low-level programming language. This book is designed for both beginners and experienced developers. It explores the exciting world of Zig through small and simple projects. Some of these projects are: a Base64 encoder/decoder, a HTTP Server and an image filter.

As you work through the book, you will learn:

• The syntax of the language, and how it compares to C, C++ and Rust.
• Data structures, memory allocators, filesystem and I/O.
• Optionals as a new paradigm to handle nullability.
• How to test and debug a Zig application.
• Errors as values, and how to handle them.
• How to build C and Zig code with the build system that is embedded into the language.
• Zig interoperability with C.
• Parallelism with threads and SIMD.
• And more.

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