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@kornel@mastodon.social
2026-07-16 12:23:31

The Bun's #Zig to #Rust rewrite is an advertisement for Anthropic, at the cost of hurting both languages.
It already made a stink for Zig. Now, when this mountain of unstable, auto-converted LGTM'd code is going to have embarrassing bugs, it's going to make a stink for Rust: "see, Ru…

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-13 20:48:39

The Zig journey continues, things get a bit cleaner and we're now parsing the primary partition entries in the MBR. Very nice...
#programming #zig

A screenshot of neovim with the primary partition parse code written in Zig.
@johl@mastodon.xyz
2026-07-09 16:19:16

Why the #Zig project bans all LLM contributions – How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code
lumramabaja.com/posts/engineer

Engineering Sacrifice: How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code | Lum Ramabaja
Engineering Sacrifice: How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code

@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org
2026-06-08 21:50:21

I enjoyed watching this interview with #zig lead dev @… on their no AI policy and running a small sustainable non-profit

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-14 00:03:42

Holy crap, I have to be missing something with respect to HashMap construction...I officially have all of the `try put` statements...lol. It does work though, and now the primary MBR partitions have appropriate partition type descriptions.
#zig #programming

ALL OF THE MBR PARTITION TYPE KEY/VALUE PAIRS in Zig.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-12 20:30:11

Moar progress, will probably move this into the struct along with MBR reconstruction from the struct. This might actually end up doing a bit of `fdisk` stuff...
#zig #programming #mbr

MBR breakdown in Zig via `neovim`.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-14 18:27:07

More progress. I've got the entire MBR processing finished up with a ton of cleanup. Processing the extended partition entries is always fun, but after a fixing a few dumb mistakes everything is parsing out correctly. Even better: no memory leaks.
#zig #programming

Source code in VSCodium showing part of the MBR partition processing section. The bottom pane shows the current partition struct output from the run against a test file with 3 primary and 4 extended partitions.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-09 15:18:56

So, after searching far and wide on the internet I have managed to open a file from a command-line argument and read 10 bytes from it using Zig v0.16. I was not expecting it to be quite this complicated.
#programming #zig

A screenshot of the Zig source code that I wrote running in Neovim that opens a file and reads 10 bytes from a file then prints it to a screen.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-12 03:49:19

So, after some consideration I decided to break out the block device reading operations out into its own module. Also, the returned data is now in a struct with a `.deinit` method that will handle cleanups. It might be more complicated than necessary, but it's clean.
#zig #programming

A screenshot of the new `dataops` module showing the buffer struct along with the `getData` function. It even compiles!
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-20 17:40:32

Hrmm, Zig is an interesting language...figured I'd kick the tires and figure out what's going on. So far it's been pretty nice.
#zig #programming

A screenshot of me working through a linked list "recipe" found on The Internet:tm: written in Zig.