How strings work in Zig?

A quick introduction to string literals in Zig, and how strings in Zig differ from strings in other programming languages.
Zig
Strings
Encoding
Author
Affiliation

Pedro Duarte Faria

DSM-Firmenich

Published

December 12, 2023

Introduction

Zig is a new general-purpose and low level programming language that is being very promising. The documentation of the language1 is very good in quality, but I missed some more specific details about strings in there.

That is why, I decided to write this article, to discuss in more depth how strings work in Zig, and give you some more specific details about it.