[stratts]

Package management in Zig is more manual than Rust, involving fetching the package URL using the CLI, then importing the module in your build script. This has its upsides - you can depend on arbitrary archives, so lots of Zig packages of C libraries are just a build script with a dependency on a unmodified tarball release. But obviously it's a little trickier for beginners.

SDL3 has both a native Zig wrapper: https://github.com/Gota7/zig-sdl3

And a more basic repackaging on the C library/API: https://github.com/castholm/SDL

For QuickJS, the only option is the C API: https://github.com/allyourcodebase/quickjs-ng

Zig makes it really easy to use C packages directly like this, though Zig's types are much more strict so you'll inevitably be doing a lot of casting when interacting with the API

[eknkc]

It is pretty easy to interface stuff like QuickJS C API. I had a POC here from last year: https://github.com/eknkc/zquickjs

Even this is pretty usable, handling value conversions and such thanks to comptime. (Take a look at the tests here: https://github.com/eknkc/zquickjs/blob/master/src/root.zig)

[LAC-Tech]

It's also worth pointing out that the Zig std library covers a lot more than the rust one. No need for things like rustix, rand, hashbrown, and a few others I always have to add whenever I do rust stuff.

[nindalf]

You add hashbrown as an explicit dependency? The standard library HashMap is a re-export of hashbrown. Doesn’t it work for you?

[vlovich123]

Can’t speak for the op but there’s a number of high performance interfaces that avoid redundant computations that are only available directly from hashbrown.

[LAC-Tech]

huh, does it? I always add it so I can make non-deterministic hashmaps in rust. oh and you need one more one for the hashing function I think.

But I did not know hashmap re-exported hashbrown, thanks.

[nindalf]

Yep, they’re the same since Rust 1.36 (Jul 2019) - https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/07/04/Rust-1.36.0/

[LAC-Tech]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/?search=hashbrown

looks like there's no way to access it, outside of hashmap.

Though maybe you just need the third party hasher and you can call with_hasher.

IDK man there's a lot going on with rust.

[nindalf]

Yes that’s exactly it. If speed is a priority and the input is trusted, change the hasher to something faster like ahash. The ahash crate makes this easy.