Systems Programming with Zig Book Published: A Hands-On Guide for Real-World Systems Software
By
Mihalis Tsoukalos
Summary
The author announces the publication of "Systems Programming with Zig," a book focused on building real-world systems software using the Zig programming language. Unlike introductory guides, this book assumes prior knowledge of Zig syntax and covers practical systems programming topics including process management, filesystem interaction, network services, concurrent data structures, asynchronous I/O, database integration, and language implementation.
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This is not an introduction to Zig syntax. The book assumes you already know how to write Zig code and picks up from there
putting the language to work on the kind of problems that systems programmers face every day: process management, filesystem interaction, network services, concurrent data structures, asynchronous I/O, database integration and language implementation
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