--- title: One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton | daily.dev description: The post narrates the author's experience of using the Zig programming language and Raylib to create an interactive Scrabble board demo during a school break.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton | daily.dev og:description: The post narrates the author's experience of using the Zig programming language and Raylib to create an interactive Scrabble board demo during a school break.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/D0CDhZCXG.png og:image:alt: One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 17 min read · 10 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The post narrates the author's experience of using the Zig programming language and Raylib to create an interactive Scrabble board demo during a school break. It offers insights into why Zig is appealing, discusses various programming techniques used, such as comptime in Zig, and describes the process of building the demo. The author also touches upon the use of jujutsu for version control and reflects on the overall coding experience. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andradei** · 0 upvotes > Nice read. I still struggle with writing Zig, especially when some libraries have 2 versions of public methods (1 with `comptime` and another without) for some readon. > But I really like the motives and direction of the project. I want to try it again when I have the time. --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#zig](https://daily.dev/tags/zig) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg"},"datePublished":"2024-12-26T17:51:11.066Z","dateModified":"2024-12-26T17:51:25.530Z","description":"The post narrates the author's experience of using the Zig programming language and Raylib to create an interactive Scrabble board demo during a school break....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/fd2a098e4592330f67c5d086d76fde5c?_a=AQAEuj9","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/fd2a098e4592330f67c5d086d76fde5c?_a=AQAEuj9","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":10},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"game-development,zig","timeRequired":"PT17M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj — Isaac Clayton"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-with-zig-raylib-and-jj-isaac-clayton-d0cdhzcxg","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice read. 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