download the latest zig (fish script oops) (requires: `fish`, `jq`, `curl`, `tar`)

getlatest.sh

#!/usr/bin/env fish

function start_of_line
    echo -ne "\r"(tput el)
end

function fail_error
    echo
    echo (set_color red)$argv
    exit
end
function progress
    start_of_line
    echo -n $argv
end

set os linux
set arch x86_64

progress "Downloading versions list..."
set json (curl --silent --show-error https://ziglang.org/download/index.json ;or fail_error "Failed to download versions list")
set tburl (echo $json | jq -r .master.\"$arch-$os\".tarball)
set fname "zig-$os-$arch-"(echo $json | jq -r .master.version)
progress "Downloading tarball..."
curl --silent --show-error $tburl --output $fname.tar.gz ;or fail_error "Failed to download latest zig"
progress "Unzipping..."
tar -xf $fname.tar.gz ;or fail_error "Failed to unzip"
rm $fname.tar.gz

progress (set_color --bold brgreen)"Success!"(set_color normal)" Run "(set_color brblue)"./update.sh"(set_color normal)" to update the zig command."
echo