Zig: the perfect language for a wayland compositor?
summary
Shows how Zig was used to remove almost all void* casts from libwayland and wlroots APIs by writing Zig bindings that add type safety without runtime overhead or major complexity. Demonstrates using Zig’s compile-time code execution to implement those bindings and describes converting the river Wayland compositor from auto-generated @cImport() bindings to the custom Zig bindings.
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