Any fellow women and trans people about?
It’s hard to get a real impression so I thought I’d ask since it’s been nice to get a sense of where everyone is from
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Well, trans woman here, though currently just watching from the sidelines.
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I’m nonbinary, not sure if that classifies as trans, although I personally consider it to do so. Personally I love the Zig community and have found it to be incredibly welcoming.
Andrew said this much more eloquently than I ever could’ve, but if you ever encounter a techbro who says that the only thing missing for women to get into programming is them wanting to, just show them this thread. Instant mind changer. At least, for those who still believe evidence that’s presented to them.
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First post!!! Welcome 
Working on anything cool lately?
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Not yet. Though I got a pull request into the ziglings repository. Which is pretty cool in my world. 
And you?
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Certainly does to me! (unless you don’t want it to 
)
When I was a student, I volunteered at many a tech/computer graphics conference and we had like 40% men on staff… I often wonder where everyone went looking around my game studio. The interest is there!
At least it’s gotten much better since 2020, a lot of the senior people became dads by then and started taking another look at some things lol.
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Fellow trans girl-thing here :3 I recently got my first software dev job! Its unfortunately not in zig, but it is pretty cool imo. We are a database solution for digitizing natural history museum collection!
Also big props to @andrewrk’s post on this topic. As usual, an eloquent, well thought response.
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Hi, first post here so wouldnt be a terrible idea to introduce myself, no?
I’m a woman & have been figuring out zig for it’s usefulness in the std.linux namespace, which (in combination with the language rules which are cleverly picked to prevent miscommunications/mistakes) has been extremely nice - compared to rust - for doing things of the creative system programming sort.
I’ve been playing with mount namespaces & some fuse file systems to try to beat the naive way of running the zig compiler on memory restricted systems (that being swap space), I think I should be able to improve on things by never needing to fully decompress my precompressed zig binary while it runs (setting up the memory mapping a bit weirdly).
Thank you andrew and vulpesx for replying so clearsightedly to the unfortunate messages from people who’d choose to out themselves as misogynists on a public forum. Ah it’s upsetting but at least they’re getting called out for it, which inspired me enough to finally finish my sign up
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Hi, I am a nonbinary person, been aware of it for many years now, for the same time I have been writing zig, and usually known in a few messaging platforms as a general help-oriented person (even if I have started to answer less with time or focus on more specific communities)
I write a lot of bullshit =) My Github represents just a bit of what I write. I go for whatever I consider shiny, this goes from emulators, safe systems, webpages or just general playing with a programming language to do whatever.
My current project is mostly writing a GPU abstraction for modern systems, Finishing my windowing library, and start working in my narrative language for a set of games I have designed.
I consider myself quite ok at programming, but I am quite inconsistent as of late with work and all weighting in (Not counting current programming state and other issues)
Hope to open my blog soon so I can share my ideas in a more custom way than being part of zig communities… but that’s out of my own wants.
My final note is that trans rights are human rights, and that I hope that we all enjoy from the community where it’s nicer.
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i’m nb and i’ve been getting back into Zig these past few days
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I love this phrase 
What are fuse file systems and what got you hacking on this problem?
Do share when you make it! If you add an RSS feed I’ll subscribe
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Filesystem in userspace
I got a project I gotta end using FUSE to do (basic) secret vault for files
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Another nb here. I’m always happy to see people of all genders in computing, and engineering in general.
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thought I accidentally went to the wrong forum seeing this post at the top of “latest” hehe 
but haii another programmer girlie reporting in. I am from Canada. nice to see this here during pride month, which speaking of, happy pride 
to all my fellow girlies and gays 
also I didn’t come here from the split messy convo topic, anddddd given the title and what ppl are saying in here it seems like im probs lucky to have not read it lol.
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Happy pride! Yeah, glad to finally be on topic
What got you interested in zig? Working on any cool projects lately?
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ooooo good question soooo I got interested in Zig basically as one of the languages i’ve spent time programming in after I pivoted from doing web design and writing web apps and such but finding myself very curious to understand programming and computers at a much deeper level. I guess I felt like web dev wasn’t really satisfying my curiosity and drive to learn new things after a certain point. So I started learning about systems languages, and in doing so I spent time with a bunch of diff ones, I started with Go because it felt approachable enough coming from web dev and it was increasingly becoming a part of web dev at this time, and I loved the freedom it gave me to control the computer more directly, but eventually I started hearing about Rust and was very intrigued by it, so I wrote Rust for a year or so, and loved that too. But as I learned more about systems programming, manipulating memory, and interacting with the OS and system libraries, I started to feel dissatisfied with the guardrails that Rust had in place. Discouraging you from directly managing memory, and found the borrow checker to just feel like it was constraining me more than helping me as I became more proficient at thinking about programs as they are, which is just moving bits around in memory.
So then finally!! I arrived at Zig, and have been loving it now for quite some time 
alsooo I am working on some cool projects!! currently my fav is my wayland bar (think waybar-esque) written in Zig. it is my foray into learning about 2d graphics programming and obv learning about the wayland protocols and windowing and so on. It uses cairo and zig-wayland and I am very happy with it and will soon be replacing my own waybar setup with it!! I did get a bit bogged down when I took on a bit more than was wise trying to write a layout engine on my own for laying out widgets and such. So I think I will revert back to a manual positioning system so I can start using it properly on my own desktop
also how about you? anything interesting ur working on??
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