Question: beginner question on why this lib exists?

[deckarep]

Hello,

I’m currently looking into building a zig-based game using SDL.

I know that you can import the C code directly using Zigs awesome understanding of C/C++ source code but I’m curious why this library of bindings exists and why you’d want to use it?

I’m only asking because this lib seems very convenient to hide the C complexity away and the possible casting that would need to happen back and forth between the world of zig and C.

Am I on the right track on why using this would be useful?

Thanks for your time!

[ikskuh]

Yes, this library exists to have more precise type mappings for Zig. SDL has documentation that talks about the allowed values for APIs, but C cannot reflect that functions expect arrays of N items for example. We can model such behaviour with Zig

[deckarep]

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation! Feel free to close.