I’ve been playing with Zig over the last few weeks. The language had been on my radar for a long time, since it was originally developed for writing audio software, but I never paid too much attention to it. It seems that it’s becoming more popular, so I’ve decided to learn it and picked a small task of rewriting the AcoustID fingerprint index server in it. That is still in progress, but there is one side product that is almost ready, a library for handling msgpack serialization.