Building a Hexdump in C & Zig – Day 7

join the discord:   / discord   im tired of ai doomerism. the only thing i can control is getting better. im livestreaming daily for accountability. i am a junior web developer, i want to learn systems programming. Chapters 0:00 The C and Zig hexdump plan 1:58 C headers and command-line arguments 5:51 Compiling with Clang and starting file handling 10:44 MacBook green screen and streaming setup 13:34 FILE, fopen and byte buffers 17:32 Learning from examples and choosing stream material 20:01 Reading the file with fread 22:30 Printing offsets, hex bytes and ASCII 26:54 C walkthrough: buffer size and output layout 34:01 Testing the C hexdump 35:31 Starting the Zig port 38:55 Finding Zig's argument APIs 44:15 Testing Zig's argument iterator 49:25 Monokai Pro, editor colors and Monkeytype 55:15 Argument slices and allocator setup 1:00:30 Zig try, tuples and argument slice types 1:06:53 Process arenas and print arguments 1:09:54 Searching for Zig's file-opening API 1:16:08 Working through Zig's I/O interface and logging 1:25:36 defer, buffers and simplifying the Zig example 1:28:58 Memory management and the Rust borrow-checker correction 1:31:23 Revisiting Zig file opening and errors 1:34:13 Understanding .{}, .mode and .read_only 1:37:24 Books, Ziglings and next steps