Zig for C Programmers (proposal for new chapter)

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Thanks for writing the site. Excellent.

As an experienced C developer and a Zig newbie I have struggled with the paucity of Zig documention. Members of Discord#zig-help have kindly provided me with answers to questions that search engines couldn't find (Zig is too new).

A chapter on Zig for C Developers would have been helpful. Anecdotes/Cookbook. I can write some content. Currently this would be suggestions on how to implement C preprocessor commands in Zig and using zig translate-c

• Zig compiler works best on Tier 1
• check which Tier you are on
• zig translate-c is your friend
• what zig translate-c misses and how to
  • #error
  • #ifdef #else #endif usingnamespace if struct{} else struct{}
• std library and support for Tier 2 Tier 3
• Zig comptime and why not to worry about apparently extraneous code
• zig build-obj and
• extern and why it is not needed
• code guards and why you don't need them
  • circular references and why they are not a problem (unless you use simlinks)
• zig's lack of number on error messages (communicating and searching for errors is harder)
• zig import of file outside package path what's wrong with #include "../../../include/includeme.h" ?
• #include usingnamespace @import