Six months of yak shaving a Zig web back end stack
5 days ago
- #Zig
- #Backend
- #Networking
- Author wrote about Zio, an async I/O library for Zig, and later developed a full web backend stack in Zig.
- Started with NATS client development, initially using threads and blocking sockets, but later switched to async I/O.
- Created Dusty, an HTTP server and package built on Zio, featuring HTTP client, WebSocket support, Server-Sent Events, and more.
- Developed additional client libraries for Memcached, PostgreSQL, and Redis, adapting existing solutions to fit the Zig stack.
- Author finds Zig suitable for performance-critical backend tasks like databases, streaming services, and audio processing.
- Plans to migrate libraries to use std.Io once Zig 0.16 is released, pending missing API functionality.