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Caroline Bell :QueerCat_Trans:Hey I'm still looking for work. I've applied to a lot of places in my area and I'm getting nothing.I'm a programmer at heart, but I've also been looking for regular entry-level jobs because there haven't been any coding positions open at my level as far as I could tell.If you can offer me a job, it might save my butt. And if you can't offer me a job, could you at least share this post?I live 30 minutes away from Bellevue if that helps.<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fedihire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fedihire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/getfedihired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#getfedihired</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/programmerforhire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmerforhire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/programmer4hire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmer4hire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coderforhire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coderforhire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coder4hire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coder4hire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lookingforwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lookingforwork</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/looking4work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#looking4work</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/unemployed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unemployed</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pleasehireme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pleasehireme</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#java</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/kotlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kotlin</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/scala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scala</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cplusplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cplusplus</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/csharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#csharp</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/dotnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dotnet</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#godot</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/godotengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#godotengine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gdscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gdscript</a>

LobstersBuilding Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/va0h3b" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/va0h3b</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#go</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://calabro.io/zig-cgo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://calabro.io/zig-cgo</a>

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣Zig.... <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a>.... What? This is awesome!

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣Tonight, at roughly 8:30 PM Eastern, I'll be going live to continue work on my 6502 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/emulator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emulator</a>!Come for the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a> stay for the. . .Zig. :D<a href="https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3</a>You can check out the progress so far on Codeberg: <a href="https://codeberg.org/b4ux1t3/zigsty-five-oh-two" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/b4ux1t3/zigsty-five-oh-two</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LiveCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiveCoding</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣Ooooooooooooh.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a> files are, themselves, structs.This is awesome, and explains some of my confusion around namespacing and stuff.Also: custom formatters for structs? So nice. Love the member accessing syntax.Hot damn I haven't been this excited about a language in a few years.

Gus Schenkel :slackware: :kde:<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sushee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sushee</a> nice, I recently updated few days ago the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> slackbuild script.<a href="https://gitlab.com/slackware-brazil/slackbuilds/-/commit/6beeae327c8d582fc2d732187ddce7467622a8dd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/slackware-brazil/slackbuilds/-/commit/6beeae327c8d582fc2d732187ddce7467622a8dd</a>

LobstersCrabtime: Zig's Comptime in Rust <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/r1hu2x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/r1hu2x</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://docs.rs/crabtime/latest/crabtime/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.rs/crabtime/latest/crabtime/</a>

Bhavani Shankar 💭<a href="https://crates.io/crates/crabtime" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">crabtime</a> is a procedural macro for writing macros that look like Rust code. It reminds me of homoiconicity of lisp and the comptime feature in zig. <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/rust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rust</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/zig" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/comptime" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comptime</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/lisp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lisp</a>

avlap<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIFpg7sBVs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIFpg7sBVs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/ziglang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ziglang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamedev</a>

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣I'm gonna try a thing:I've been letting a few projects languish for a while now. One of them is my 6502 emulator, which I ported from c++ to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CSharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CSharp</a> a few years ago.I kind of want to port it again, or maybe just reimplement it.The top of my list is a real grab bag of languages:<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rust</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swift</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GoLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoLang</a>I may just get some of the basic addressing logic done in each of them and see what sticks. They're in rough order of "what I want to play with", though of all of them I have the most familiarity with rust. With Zig I have practically zero experience, and the other two sit somewhere in between.The point here is not to start language wars, and I'll straight up mute anyone who tries, but I'd love to hear folks' thoughts.If you want to make the case for another language, feel free to drop them in the replies! Really only looking for statically-compiled languages, and I'm not writing it in Java. ;)Edit: Oh, and, boosts appreciated!

LobstersLightpanda: A new browser built for machines <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/yt4vlb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/yt4vlb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browsers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://lightpanda.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lightpanda.io/</a>

LobstersDead Simple Snapshot Testing In Zig <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/iguimj" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/iguimj</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/testing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#testing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://kristoff.it/blog/dead-simple-snapshot-testing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kristoff.it/blog/dead-simple-snapshot-testing/</a>

LobstersComptime Zig ORM <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/ki7hmf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/ki7hmf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://matklad.github.io/2025/03/19/comptime-zig-orm.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://matklad.github.io/2025/03/19/comptime-zig-orm.html</a>

Abraham Samma🔬🔭👨‍💻Ziglang allows for safer, more efficient and enjoyable use of C dependencies and integration with C codebases than Rust, and there are some significant performance and developer experience benefits.<a href="https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/</a><a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rust</a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a>

Profoundly Nerdy<a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/@bortzmeyer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bortzmeyer</a> Zig is one of three languages I have my eye on!- <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a> - Procedural and easier to read than C. - <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Haskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haskell</a> - Functional in the extreme. - <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Rakulang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rakulang</a> - Can be functional, can be procedural, can be OO. Fantastic grammar / <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/regex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regex</a> model.I think they complement each other. Every Haskell guy I have introduced to Raku has loved it. I've known a few people who use Zig when they don't feel like being purely functional.

Stéphane Bortzmeyer<a href="https://bitbang.social/@profoundlynerdy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@profoundlynerdy</a> Use <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a>!

LobstersZest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/grpayi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/grpayi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compilers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compilers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://github.com/jamii/zest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/jamii/zest</a>

LobstersArenaAllocator.free and Nested Arenas via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@vpol" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vpol</a> <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/2fyyzi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/2fyyzi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> <a href="https://www.openmymind.net/ArenaAllocator-free-and-Nested-Arenas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openmymind.net/ArenaAllocator-free-and-Nested-Arenas/</a>

kazéDear LazyWeb: is there a C/C++, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RustLang</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zig</a> equivalent of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciPy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciPy</a>’s `stats` module for statistical analysis? Namely: • a collection of common PDFs (probability density functions); • MLE (maximum likelihood estimation) for these common distributions; • KDE (kernel density estimation).SciPy’s API is a pleasure to work with. Anything that comes close but usable from C/C++/Rust/Zig would make my life so much easier. Boosts appreciated for visibility.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#statistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#probability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataScience</a>

bentegOpen-sourced my first piece of software: <a href="https://codeberg.org/benteg/ziglet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/benteg/ziglet</a> It's a FIGlet port written in <a href="https://toot.community/tags/zig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zig</a> for formatting text as ASCII art``` _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ | | | | ___| | | ___ \ \ / /__ _ __| | __| | | | |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | | | _ | __/ | | (_) | \ V V / (_) | | | | (_| |_| |_| |_|\___|_|_|\___( ) \_/\_/ \___/|_| |_|\__,_(_) |/ ```

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