Zig Cheatsheet

Zig is a system-level programming language.

Meta

• These are my notes on learning Zig.
• I am a web developer, working mostly with Python.
• I do this in my spare time, in small steps.

Resources

• Zig
• GitHub: ziglang/zig
• What’s Zig got that C, Rust and Go don’t have? (with Loris Cro)
• Zig: In-depth Overview

How to run Zig?

• Download Zig for your platform.
• Unpack the archive and place it somewhere.
• It contains a zig executable and a lib/ directory.
• The zig executable searches for the lib/ directory relative to its location.
• I have it in the following places:
  • zig executable in ~/.local/zig/zig
  • lib/ directory in ~/.local/zig/lib/
  • export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/zig

My First Zig Program

• What do I want to build in Zig?
  • Zig