Zig Cross-Language Packaging: npm, PyPI, CRAN, NuGet, RubyGems, and Mobile Native Artifacts

A practical two-hour session on Zig Cross-Language Packaging, focused on npm, PyPI, CRAN, NuGet, RubyGems, and Mobile Native Artifacts. The session treats Zig as a native component exposed through C-compatible boundaries, with attention to exported symbols, allocators, packaging, host-runtime tests, and failure handling.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Zig Cross-Language Packaging
• Apply npm in a small working example
• Apply PyPI in a small working example
• Apply CRAN in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.