OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-scarcity/issues/13
And the question I want to ask first is, how in Zig to I malloc a chunk of memory, and then later write structs into areas within that chunk?
Simon Brooke
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2026-03-21 13:56:44 UTC
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