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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: 1.811s | source
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ldelossa ◴[01 Jun 23 13:15 UTC] No.36150624[source]▶
I'm surprised that the reason I'm mostly interested in Zig is not mentioned.

This is C interop.

I work with C quite a bit and I enjoy it, however writing a large project in C can be tiresome.

Having an option like Zig which can import C headers and call C functions without bindings is pretty attractive, especially when you want to write something a big larger but still stay in C world.

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1. esjeon ◴[01 Jun 23 15:58 UTC] No.36153013[source]▶
C-interop is pretty perfect for most usecases. The only trouble I had was that, since command line arguments are converted to slices in Zig, I have to convert them back to null-terminated strings whenever I call C functions using any of the arguments. Nothing difficult but slightly painful.