Everyone Should Know SIMDOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary

Mitchell Hashimoto introduces SIMD through approachable examples in Zig. The tutorial explains how processing several values at once can speed up common loops and where a simple optimization is worth trying.

Tutorial · SIMD · Zig

Don't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary

A walkthrough of testing error-recovery paths by deliberately injecting failures. Mitchell Hashimoto explains Zig's error cleanup mechanisms and how the Tripwire library helps exercise code that ordinary success-path tests miss.

Tutorial · Zig · Software Testing

Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary

A real Ghostty example illustrates how Zig's compile-time facilities can generate a subset of a tagged union. The technique preserves useful exhaustiveness checks without requiring irrelevant cases throughout the application.

Tutorial · Zig · Type Systems

Conditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary

An introduction to conditionally excluding code with Zig's comptime features. Mitchell Hashimoto shows why compile-time selection is useful and how it can be expressed with ordinary language constructs.

Tutorial · Zig · Build Systems