Zig Error Contracts Across Languages: Error Sets, Status Codes, Out Parameters, and Diagnostics

A practical two-hour session on Zig Error Contracts Across Languages, focused on Error Sets, Status Codes, Out Parameters, and Diagnostics. 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 Error Contracts Across Languages
• Apply Error Sets in a small working example
• Apply Status Codes in a small working example
• Apply Out Parameters 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.