Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund
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Isaac Freund, author of the River Wayland compositor, talks about writing a Wayland compositor in Zig. He covers why he chose Zig over C and Rust and how Zig can wrap a hairy C library.
Why HN recommends it: HN recommends it as a phenomenal talk on Zig's C interop and on choosing between C, Rust and Zig for systems work.
“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” Read on HN ↗