https://www.ziglang.in/blog/ Posts about Zig, each written against a named compiler. en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:15:00 GMT https://www.ziglang.in/blog/the-file-that-was-not-there/ https://www.ziglang.in/blog/the-file-that-was-not-there/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:15:00 GMT Rajesh Pillai A short story about a passphrase tool that worked on one laptop and failed on every other. The fix is @embedFile, and a word list the compiler checks line by line. Written against Zig 0.17.0-dev.2056+79a9897cd. https://www.ziglang.in/blog/the-2gb-log-file-at-11pm/ https://www.ziglang.in/blog/the-2gb-log-file-at-11pm/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:50:00 GMT Rajesh Pillai A short story about an on-call engineer, a 2 GB log file, a server where nothing can be installed, and a 274 KB Zig program. Every program in it runs in your browser. Written against Zig 0.17.0-dev.2056+79a9897cd. https://www.ziglang.in/blog/builtin-mode-is-deprecated/ https://www.ziglang.in/blog/builtin-mode-is-deprecated/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:11:00 GMT Rajesh Pillai Zig master deprecated builtin.mode, builtin.cpu and builtin.os. Here is what replaces each one, and how to check your own compiler. Written against Zig 0.17.0-dev.2056+79a9897cd.