seanh

August 1, 2026, 11:26am 1

Any recommended books (or other resources) for someone who wants to learn to become a Zig contributor one day?

I’m a web developer by trade (Python, TypeScript). In the past I’ve also done iOS development, desktop app development, game development, and taught object-oriented programming: Objective-C, Java, C++ (but this was all a long time ago: it’s been mostly Python for the past couple of decades).

Thanks!

I’ve always been fascinated by programming languages and how they might be designed and implemented. But I’ve never worked on one before. In fact I’ve never really done any low-level programming (C, assembly, etc).

I’m aware of Crafting Interpreters: thought I could work through that and do the challenges in Zig. Writing a C Compiler by Nora Sandler has also been recommended to me. Also Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective, and Linkers and Loaders. But I’m not really in a position to assess the relevance or usefulness of these for contributing to Zig.