Your First Zig Program
In this chapter, we’re going to take a classic cliché—the “Hello, World!” program—and turn it into something a bit more... educational. Yes, it’s everyone’s favorite first program, but we’re going to dissect it like a biology class frog.
What are you going to do? Well, besides writing your first Zig program, you’ll learn how to set up a Zig project from scratch, manipulate variables, and take the first steps in debugging. You’ll also explore Zig’s love-hate relationship with strings. And hey, by the end, you’ll be compiling and running your own programs manually, like an actual system programmer who doesn’t need training wheels.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:
- “Hello, World!”: Your first taste of Zig
- Basic debugging
- Variables
- Building Zig projects
