Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)
Summary
The article explores Zig's struct-of-arrays (SoA) approach using comptime and reflection to generate types from a struct. It demonstrates how data-oriented design can yield memory layout benefits via the MultiArrayList implementation, moving from an AoS to an SoA representation. Through code examples (FixedArrayList, PointN) and compile-time type construction, it highlights the power and limits of Zig's compile-time features for generic data structures.