My first Zig Day — tristanpemble

We started the day with a quick mingle. We then briefly formed a circle to introduce ourselves and say what project we had brought with us, or what we were hoping to learn. We then broke out organically into groups, coded all day, went out to lunch, came back, coded some more, and finally, shared what we had done all day.

While there, I met a student from DigiPen who drove down from Seattle to visit their buddy in Portland. They were both excited to learn about the event, and that it coincided with the trip. We worked through bindings for CLAP, an open protocol for building audio plugins for Digital Audio Workstations. This is something I’ve always wanted to get into, and for whatever reason, just never did. Thanks to them, I have a new hobby.

I talked to someone who was working on their command line Markdown parser and renderer. It was their first Zig project, coming from a tenured career using C++. We were both excited to talk about what Zig did differently that inspired us. They demoed their project to me, and it was my first time seeing Kitty’s terminal graphics protocol in action. Thanks to them, I felt like I took a step toward the future.

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