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Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig with Isaac Freund

Zig SHOWTIME · Talk · 42 min · 2020 · YouTube title: Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund
Why it's here

HN recommends it as a phenomenal talk on Zig's C interop and on choosing between C, Rust and Zig for systems work.

What it covers

Isaac Freund, author of the River Wayland compositor, talks about writing a Wayland compositor in Zig. He covers why he chose Zig over C and Rust and how Zig can wrap a hairy C library.