[HN Gopher] Show HN: Zig-DbC - A design by contract library for Zig
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       Show HN: Zig-DbC - A design by contract library for Zig
        
       Hi everyone,  I've made an open-source library for using design by
       contract (DbC) principles in the Zig programming language.  It's
       called Zig-DbC, and it currently provides the following features:
       - A simple API to define preconditions, postconditions, and
       invariants.  - Contracts are active in `Debug`, `ReleaseSafe`, and
       `ReleaseSmall` modes to catch bugs early.  - All checks are removed
       at compile time in `ReleaseFast` mode for zero performance cost.  -
       An optional mode to handle partial state changes in functions that
       return errors.  - Transparent error handling that propagates errors
       from your code to the caller.  Project's GitHub repo:
       https://github.com/habedi/zig-dbc
        
       Author : habedi0
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-08-12 13:49 UTC (2 days ago)
        
       | metalliqaz wrote:
       | This is pretty cool, I like to see this kind of project coming to
       | Zig. Zig's compile-time language features make DbC a natural fit.
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       | I am not yet proficient enough in Zig to be able to evaluate how
       | well the syntax fits into idiomatic Zig.
       | 
       | Good work.
        
         | habedi0 wrote:
         | Thanks.
         | 
         | I'm new to Zig myself and created this library because I had
         | trouble verifying the correctness of the code I wrote for a set
         | of complex data structures in another larger Zig project (this
         | one: https://github.com/habedi/ordered). I'm currently
         | experimenting with how to use DbC in Zig, which led to the
         | creation of this library.
        
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