If you’ve written network code in earlier versions of Zig or in C, then the patterns here will feel familiar. This post walks through building a minimal HTTP/1.1 server using nothing but the Zig standard library.The full source code for this blog post is available as a self-contained main.zig and main-async.zig with no external dependencies other than the Zig 0.16 standard library on GitHub.A Brief History of I/O In ZigZig 0.15.1 - “Writergate”: All existing std.io readers and writers were deprecated in favor of the new std.Io.Reader and std.Io.Writer. These are non-generic structs that hold both a vtable pointer and buffer. The buffer lives in the interface and not in the implementation.

If you’ve written network code in earlier versions of Zig or in C, then the patterns here will feel familiar. This post walks through building a minimal HTTP/1.1 server using nothing but the Zig standard library.The full source code for this blog post is available as a self-contained main.zig and main-async.zig with no external dependencies other than the Zig 0.16 standard library on GitHub.A Brief History of I/O In ZigZig 0.15.1 - “Writergate”: All existing std.io readers and writers were deprecated in favor of the new std.Io.Reader and std.Io.Writer. These are non-generic structs that hold both a vtable pointer and buffer. The buffer lives in the interface and not in the implementation.