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Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing

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110 points ww520 | 2 comments | 01 Apr 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source

I believe the best way to learn a language is by doing an in-depth project. This is my first Zig project intended for learning the ropes on publishing a Zig package. It turns out to be quite solid and performant. It might be a bit over-engineered.

This little library is packed with the following features:

  - Building dependency graph from dependency data.
  - Performing topological sort on the dependency graph.
  - Generating dependence-free subsets for parallel processing.
  - Cycle detection and cycle reporting.
1. tediousgraffit1 ◴[01 Apr 25 21:01 UTC] No.43551289[source]▶
I really like this, this is the perfect size project for exploring a new piece of tech. I especially like that you implemented an actual cli and not just tests.
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2. ww520 ◴[01 Apr 25 21:34 UTC] No.43551572[source]▶
Yes. The CLI is important. It's great for running tests and driving development. It also forces me to dog-food my own library to think in the shoes of the users of the library. In fact a number of features were added due to shortcomings exposed while implementing the CLI.