WebAssembly and Zig: Passing Strings and Struct references (Video+Source Repo)

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Hello all!

I created an example of passing Strings and references to structs from Zig(guest) to Java(host) in WASM. All the examples I found were using null-terminated strings. This code uses a trick to return two values(pointer and length) to use regular strings.

The most important part was to allocate struct in the heap, so the lifetime is not bound to function. I love how explicit it is in Zig.

const parsed = allocator.create(std.json.Parsed(BookQuote))

Here is the video:

And the source code repository on GitHub:

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