Trying to Learn Zig, Advice Required - I'm hitting a lot of Deprecations, Package Manager Compatibility issues

[Austin]

Ah, The woes of coming in at a time when large changes have occurred. And will continue to occur for a bit.
I understand your frustration.

I remember a post asking about how to make a simple http request within ziggit using 15.2~. This should have some information for you.

Simple HTTP fetch request (with new writer interface)?

Hiya, I’m trying to replicate this HTTP request example but having trouble with the new writer interface. Here’s my minimal not-working example adapted from the link above. const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() !void { var stdout_buffer: [1024]u8 = undefined; var stdout_writer = std.fs.File.stdout().writer(&stdout_buffer); const stdout = &stdout_writer.interface; var gpa = std.heap.DebugAllocator(.{}){}; const allocator = gpa.allocator(); defer _ = gpa.deinit(); …

My two cents, though not terribly fun:

If there are any video tutorials older than 15.2 release, they are likely deprecated. Outside of things like the package manager or basic concepts.

Otherwise… It may be useful to go back a few versions and spend an hour or two to read through the release notes until now and take notes. There is a lot of information tucked throughout, that may lead to answers not found in the documentation, yet.