Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a phenomenal talk on Zig's C interop and on choosing between C, Rust and Zig for systems work.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Zig SHOWTIME

Topic

zig and wayland

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• this talk is phenomenal thank you. he explains (timestamp: [VIDEO] ) why he didn't go with Rust and it's quite puzzling what he says. I don't know enough about Rust if that's the case. To rephrase: "Rust was an obvious contender but it lacked good …

• Congratulations! And welcome Isaac, I loved his Zig+Wayland screencast [1], where he explained very engagingly how Zig is able to embrace and extend a pretty hairy C library and make it more memory safe, without forcing the implementor to rewrite or painfully try to bend …

• The author of River has also done some fantastic talks, on Zig ShowTime [1] and at FOSDEM '21 [2]. [1] "Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig" - [VIDEO] [2] "Zig: the perfect language for a Wayland Compositor?" - [LINK]