Zigscript

Installation

Put the zigscript file in this repository on your $PATH

# ln -s zigscript /usr/local/bin/

How to use

Simply put

#!/usr/bin/env zigscript

in the first line of your script.

Example:

#!/usr/bin/env zigscript
const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
    try stdout.print("Hello, {}!\n", .{"world"});
}

Save it as example, make sure it's executable and run it:

$ ./example
Hello, world!

How it works

It simply copies your script to another directory excluding the first line. Then zig run is called with the copied file as an argument. It compiles the code and runs the result. Zig's caching system will make sure to only recompile when there are changes in the script.

Limitations

• You will need a main function, just like in any other executable zig program
• All your code needs to be in one file. You may import stuff from the standard library
• Line numbers on compile errors/warnings are off by one

See also

Closed issue on this topic: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2165