Zig Wrapper Libraries for C APIs: Ownership, Lifetimes, Documentation, and Examples

A practical two-hour session on Zig Wrapper Libraries for C APIs, focused on Ownership, Lifetimes, Documentation, and Examples. 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 Wrapper Libraries for C APIs
• Apply Ownership in a small working example
• Apply Lifetimes in a small working example
• Apply Documentation 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.