#What's the best project to break down for learning?

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proud stirrup
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Hi everybody. Coming from rust. I really like zig's philosophy but i'm struggling with a lot of common patterns
I'm looking for a big project which i could break down from the start to learn about those things. It will take a lot of time and that's why i'm asking for your opinions.
Currently i'm looking into tigerbeetle but i'm not really sure if that's what i should to read in order to understand and the project itself is massive

daring sand
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Zig's std

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If you want example for interfaces: std.Io.Reader

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Basic networking: std.http

proud stirrup
# daring sand Zig's std

i was looking for something written in zig from the start. I want to try backtracking commits and reading through them instead of looking at the final state

daring sand
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Zig's std is super readable, so idk why you should look "from the start".
There's #1024381264213594242, check it out!

proud stirrup
daring sand
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Also, I was Rust programmer too. I want to give some tips before you continue.

  1. Always write unit tests, because they catch 99.9% of memory bugs with std.testing.allocator
  2. Keep in mind that most of std types are "views". So if you need to store anything you should copy it to the stack or do heap allocation.
  3. Always use defer/errdefer if something could fail.
  4. If possible, always do comptime.
  5. zig zen
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@proud stirrup

proud stirrup
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Thank you. That's really nice!

What do you mean by std types?

daring sand
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Oh sh

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When you do split buffer is not copied.

proud stirrup
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I think i get what you mean. So some types operate on view into some data which is located somewhere else in memory. Correct?

And as far as i can see splitScalar doesn't copy but uses original slice

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@daring sand

daring sand
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I felt into that many times

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Silently corrupting the memory

proud stirrup
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Ohh i see. That's helpful. Thank you for tips