Idiomatic Zig

[Fulvio1981]

Hello everyone,
I’m writing a 2d videogame in Zig with SDL. Though I’m quite experienced in most languages/technologies, I’m just learning zig, and was looking for up to date pointers for idiomatic use of language features/standard library in particularly two areas: memory management and I/O (Zig version baseline is 0.16). Do you have any such references? Googling it give me results for previous versions usually (I understand 0.16 is only two months ago, but still hope to find something).

Thank you all!

[Sze]

Here are two good docs entries written by the community:
https://ziggit.dev/tags/c/docs/14/zig-0-16

std.Io overview

I feel like this is too long! what details do you think would be better in a different post? or do you think the focus of this one should change? perhaps this should not go into any details and just link to other posts for e.g async/concurrency? With 0.16 just released with the std.Io interface. It is bound to change (this will be updated with it) in the future as more people use it and find where it is lacking, many areas are already known. It is only in a “good enough to be used for most …

File I/O basics (0.16)

(Note, this is a variation on this article, invited into docs with the release of 0.16.) As always, reply/comment all you want, and I’ll endeavor to make changes accordingly. Motivation, and migration Zig 0.16 brought big changes to I/O. std.fs references deprecate everywhere, and understanding basic use of std.Io is in order. Zig’s new I/O model brings I/O into alignment with the Allocator model - all of Zig’s “file system, networking, timers, synchronization, and pretty much everything that …