asynts / learn-zig

My goal is to implement a few simple tools in Zig to get familiar with the syntax. I was thinking about ls, tree, tar, jail and jq.

Development Environment

• Install Visual Studio Code

• Install augusterame.zls-vscode extension.

• Install zig package in Arch Linux.

• Currently, I am using a custom build of zig with whatever zls the extension installs.

asynts_template

This is a project I created to play around with Zig a bit. I don't think that this should be used by anyone for anything.

My original goal was to parse HTML templates at comptime and then to prepare a sequence of instructions that can be executed efficiently at runtime.

• However, it's extremely difficult to securely escape HTML. In a static context this is essentially impossible due to parser differentials.

• HTML is a mess with a ton of edge cases. Since I was just playing around with this, I don't want to deal with all the edge cases.

• Currently, Zig does not support allocations at comptime, not even with std.heap.FixedBufferAllocator.

Maybe, I'll come back to this project when support for comptime allocations has been added. Probably, I will never get this project to a "production" state though.