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<p>On our next project we are going to build a HTTP server from scratch. But in order to do that, we need to learn more about pointers and how they work in Zig. Pointers in Zig are similar to pointers in C. But they come with some extra advantages in Zig.</p>
<p>A pointer is an object that contains a memory address. Thi