Zig Replacing Shell Scripts: Types, Tests, Portability, and Safer Automation

A practical two-hour session on Zig Replacing Shell Scripts, focused on Types, Tests, Portability, and Safer Automation. Zig is used realistically for systems tooling, C interop, parsing, build workflows, and performance-minded components rather than pretending it is a full web platform.

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

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Zig Replacing Shell Scripts
• Apply Types in a small working example
• Apply Tests in a small working example
• Apply Portability 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.