Zig by Example

A hands-on introduction to Zig via annotated examples. Zig is a general-purpose, compiled systems language focused on robustness, optimality, and simplicity — no hidden control flow, no hidden allocations, no preprocessor.

Written by Dariush Abbasi for Boring College

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1. Hello, World
2. Values
3. Variables
4. Integers
5. Floats
6. Strings
7. Arrays
8. Slices
9. Vectors
10. Structs
11. Enums
12. Unions
13. Functions
14. Blocks and Statements
15. If / Else
16. Switch
17. While Loops
18. For Loops
19. Defer
20. Errors
21. Optionals
22. Pointers
23. Multi-Pointers
24. Slices (Pointers)
25. Comptime
26. Generics
27. Memory Allocation
28. ArrayList
29. HashMap
30. Linked List
31. Testing
32. Formatting and Print
33. File I/O
34. Processes
35. JSON
36. Random Numbers
37. Sorting
38. Math
39. Build System
40. C Interop

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Further Reading

• Zig Official Documentation
• Zig Standard Library Source
• Zig Learn
• Zig News
• Ziglings — exercises

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Zig by Example is inspired by Go by Example by Mark McGranaghan. Examples target Zig 0.14.

Contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.