This project is a bit of a playground to get a better understanding of how to use Zig's reflection system.
For more information, you can checkout the project here
Feel free to fork and open issues but I am not promising that anything will get fixed.
This is very much MVP to suit my specific use case.
Simple... JSON is way too much typing.
I have done a fair amount of GoLang in my career which has led me to using the go generate pattern quite a bit. I would love to use the same pattern in Zig, but i dont want to define everything in JSON just to satisfy the stdlib.
Would JSON have been easier? Probably.
This requires a build of Zig 0.14. Current stable 0.13.x will not work due to changes in the typing system for @typeInfo()
First run: zig fetch --save=yaml-parser https://github.com/gwagner/zig-yaml-parser/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
You can also re-run this command to pull down the freshest version of the repo
Next, in your build.zig add the following:
const yaml_parser = b.dependency("yaml-parser", .{});
exe.root_module.addImport("yaml", &yaml_parser.artifact("yaml-parser").root_module);
exe should be the name of whatever your binary build step is
Finally, you need to have libyaml installed. I am not going to provide instructions for that since it is different on all systems.
Run your build and profit!