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Lager is the company blog at lagerdata.com, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's Zig articles as an introduction to the language, including an intro to Zig's integers. Commenters say official Zig documentation is scattered and this helps fill that gap.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lager is open source infrastructure for embedded software development. Programmable, composable, and AI-friendly workflows for real hardware on the network — devices, instruments, and hardware-in-the-loop tests in CI.
Most-linked posts?
- An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-11
What Hacker News says?
as far as I can tell, none really good ones exist yet... the documentation is still scattered. The official website [1] is a good starting point. and I wish I'd seen this [2] earlier (I hope this gets incoporated into the official resources) [1] https://ziglang.org/learn/ [2] https://www.lagerdata.com/articles/an-intro-to-zigs-integer-... This is probably the most comprehensive resource: https://ziglang.org/document…
Comment linking /articles/an-intro-to-zigs-integer-casting-for-c-programmers
on “Building an efficient and portable programming language with Zig”Submitted An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers as a story · 129 points
HN discussionZig is still relatively immature so it’s hard to judge just quite what software patterns will look like at scale, especially when it leaves the niche of language enthusiasts using it to build stuff. Anyway, [1] shows the pros of this approach. But notice what’s not being discussed. This acknowledges that you have effectively increased the number of error paths in your program and you have to go through quite a bit o…
Comment linking /articles/testing-memory-allocation-failures-with-zig
on “Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities”Submitted A Field Guide for the Modern Embedded Engineer as a story · 10 points
HN discussion