hello-zig

Some experiments in zig. The main goal here is to get some graphics going and generally play around a bit.

TODO

• Get a hello world going
• Get syntax highlighting and debugging to work
• Get a basic triangle on the screen
• Get a animated triangle mesh going. Wireframes only.
• Build for other systems than macos
• Try to get a dynamic library built in zig, and use dlopen() to live-reload functions

Decisions made

• Zig people seem to use VSCode. Well, ok then.
• I tried raylib-zig but could not get it to compile. Switched to sokol and sokol-zig bindings.

Dependencies

VSCode

Note

I use vscodium and I'm a complete NOOB wrt VSCode.

I use these extensions:

• Zig Language, which installs zig and zls (zig language server)
• The debugger task uses CodeLLDB
• Shader language support
• GLSL Lint could not get this running

sokol

• put sokol-shdc from sokol-tools somewhere in your path. I used the binaries from sokol-tools-bin and linked it to ~/.local/bin