Articles tagged with #zig

I've been building a universal code formatter in Zig, and I recently discovered something humbling: my formatter will never be as fast as Ruff on large files. But here's the twist - it's actually faster on small files, and the journey to this realization taught me a lot.

I recently encountered a puzzling issue: zig build worked perfectly, but make build failed with "Permission denied". What followed was an interesting debugging session that uncovered a quirky interaction between GNU Make's PATH search and directory structures.

This article documents the investigation process and some debugging techniques that proved useful along the way.