# Baby’s first Zig project (w/ Bonus Nix-Zig flake based dev shell)

**URL:** <https://ziggit.dev/t/baby-s-first-zig-project-w-bonus-nix-zig-flake-based-dev-shell/9371>\
**Category:** Showcase\
**Created:** [March 31, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/baby-s-first-zig-project-w-bonus-nix-zig-flake-based-dev-shell/9371 "2025-03-31T18:18:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![harryprayiv](https://ziggit.dev/user_avatar/ziggit.dev/harryprayiv/32/4793_2.png) [@harryprayiv](https://ziggit.dev/u/harryprayiv)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/baby-s-first-zig-project-w-bonus-nix-zig-flake-based-dev-shell/9371/1 "2025-03-31T18:18:01Z")

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I just now built my first little hello world for Zig. It is a camera exposure calculator which I like to build in any language that sparks my interest instead of a boring hello world.

> **[GitHub - harryprayiv/zig-exposure-calc](https://github.com/harryprayiv/zig-exposure-calc)**
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> Contribute to harryprayiv/zig-exposure-calc development by creating an account on GitHub.

**Anyway, the part that the community may be interested in is my nix dev environment that I built for this project**. All I had to do was type

> nix run github:harryprayiv/zig-exposure-calc#

and everything just worked. Glad to finally build something in Zig.

Here’s to many more.

Zig is a great language!

Nice to meet you all!

-Harry