Continuing on my journey learning Zig and audio programming, and also making a good follow-up to the time I wrote Zig to manually generate a WAVE file, today I decided to generate a WAVE file using libsndfile.

In my Zig learning journey, for some problems I have found the standard library documentation a bit too curt.

Today I learned how to use a debugger to debug Zig programs. The lldb way (gdb style) First, I learned how to use lldb, the debugger provided by the LLVM project.

In the last post, I told you how I learned the basics of generating a WAVE file, both in Python and Zig.

Today I set out to learn how to create a WAVE file. I had recently gone through an article about reading and writing wave files in Python, which whet my appetite to do somewhat the same in Zig.

Today I decided to get some practice using Zig’s data structures from the standard library, building an old friend: a bc style calculator, implementing the algorithms to evaluate reverse Polish notation expressions and converting from infix to that notation.

In my Zig learning journey, I’ve managed to not use allocators for anything yet. I’ve watched this great video of Dude The Builder explaining the basics of allocators in Zig.

In the previous post, I went about my experiments with Zig and the FluidSynth Sequencer API.

Today I learned the basics of the FluidSynth Sequencer API. It is not super complicated, but it took me some time to understand the concepts, as not everything is explained in great detail.

I find quite cool how quickly you can start using a C library from Zig! No need to write bindings or to fiddle with a FFI, it provides direct integration with C libraries.