83: Zig and Zigler with Isaac Yonemoto

We talk with Isaac Yonemoto about the Zig language and his Zigler Elixir library. We learn where Zig came from, why it is capturing people's interest, and how Zigler makes it easy to write native, cross-compiled NIFs in Elixir! At the end we shift into talking about his OpenAPI Elixir project that comes at the problem from a different direction than others. A fun get-to-know-you with Isaac and a great look into Zig and where it might go with Elixir in the future.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83

Elixir Community News

• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.19-released/ – Gleam release v0.19 enables publishing Gleam packages to Hex as Erlang libraries.
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/mix_gleam – Mix Gleam makes it easier to integrate Gleam into your Elixir project
• Brooklin Myers joined DockYard as a full time employee to help build an open Elixir bootcamp.
• https://github.com/lpil/thoas/ – Jason library ported to Erlang
• https://www.irif.fr/~gc/stageElixir.en.html – Masters project working to add "Set-theoretic types" to Elixir
• https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/1957 – Neovim performance impact from tree-sitter regression
• https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1510 – Link to the tree-sitter issue
• https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1481287351376629766 – The Elixir and Nerves book "Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves" is now out of beta and available at PragProg
• https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/#register – LambdaDays rescheduled dates are Thu, 28 Jul 2022 - Fri, 29 Jul 2022
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/issues/72 – Using Livebook for interviewing
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Our interview with Dave Lucia at SimpleBet

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1425819709895806976
• https://ziglang.org/
• https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfjdGva3NE&list=PLqj39LCvnOWZna91xJ_i44g3rx4Brbpnv&index=31 – Isaac's Elixir Conf 2021 Presentation about Zig
• https://julialang.org/
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• https://llvm.org/
• https://gcc.gnu.org/
• https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html
• https://gohugo.io/
• https://www.openapis.org/
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apiarist
• https://github.com/ityonemo/exonerate
• https://hexdocs.pm/exonerate/Exonerate.html

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/DNAutics – on Twitter
• https://github.com/ityonemo/ – on Github
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA/featured – Isaac's YouTube channel

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