zig-play

Zig Playground

This is a rudimentary online compiler for the Zig programming language. It is inspired by the Go playground.

It's currently served from this page.

Setup

The main server is a Go binary that serves up a single HTML page that allows you to enter your Zig code and then run it.

Installation Requirements:

• zvm
• go

You'll also want a shell script called zrun.sh accessible from the home directory of the user you run the playground as:

#!/bin/bash

set -eu

VERSION=$1
SOURCE=$2
TIMEOUT=$YOUR_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS

/usr/bin/timeout $TIMEOUT zvm run "$VERSION" run "$SOURCE"

Hosting

I currently am using a VPS and have Caddy as a reverse proxy.

FAQ

What can this playground do?

It is currently set up to simply run and format a single Zig source file. (i.e. zig run source.zig & zig fmt source.zig)

Can you share an example request?

# main.zig is the file containing the source you want to execute.
curl -v -H "X-Zig-Version: 0.15.2" https://zig-play.dev/server/run -d @main.zig

Are there any timeouts?

If your code doesn't build within 30 seconds, the server will quit your request.

Why am I getting rate-limited?

You're allowed five executions per minute which I think is fairly generous.

Is it secure?

Go read the source. I do not collect logs of any kind and am not interested in your data. Unless it is causing issues to the service.

Will this always be available?

To the best of my ability, I will try and keep this online.

Contact

Feel free to write to hello@zig-play.dev with any questions or comments.

License

MIT