azem • sooriya

micromouse maze simulator built in zig with dvui. runs natively on mac/windows/linux and in the browser via wasm.

why

wanted to tinker with mms but it uses qt. cpp is fine, qt is not. also wanted an excuse to build something real in zig.

the name: “azem” is “maze” with the m cycled to the back.

architecture

src/
├── azem.zig      # entry point
├── App.zig       # application state
├── Engine.zig    # rendering engine (dvui)
├── Maze.zig      # maze data structures and parsing
├── Solver.zig    # pathfinding algorithms
├── Theme.zig     # theming system
├── Color.zig     # color utilities
├── fonts/        # embedded fonts
└── theme/        # theme assets

dvui handles the ui framework. supports both native (opengl) and web (wasm/canvas) backends from the same codebase.

build targets

command	description
`zig build`	build and run native
`zig build c`	compile native only
`zig build web`	build web and open browser
`zig build wc`	compile web only
`zig build ws`	serve web on localhost:8000
`zig build wp`	optimized web build for deploy