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Zig is hard but worth it

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401 points signa11 | 1 comments | 01 Jun 23 10:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bakuninsbart ◴[01 Jun 23 12:46 UTC] No.36150356[source]▶
Where do you guys see good use cases for Zig? I'm intrigued by the language but don't really have any good ideas on where to try it out.

I thought about trying it out in as small data engineering project, but I'm not sure if language support is sufficient for the kind of tooling I would need eg. Database adapters.

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1. chjj ◴[01 Jun 23 13:14 UTC] No.36150616[source]▶
Do you maintain any C projects? Personally, I tried using zig for its build system (which can also compile C and whose build files are written in zig). One of the benefits of this was easy cross-compilation to all major platforms.

It might not be a _real_ use-case or anything, but writing a `build.zig` file for an existing C project might be a good way to at least dip your toe in the water.