Illuminating the Invisible: Building a Real-Time WiFi Radar with Rust & Zig

Introduction: Most people see WiFi as a list of names in a settings menu. I see it as a crowded, invisible aether. I wanted to build something that looked like a Cold War radar but ran on the Solana blockchain. The Challenge: Rust is amazing for GUIs (egui), but when you want to talk to the Linux Kernel via nl80211 netlink calls, things get messy. That’s where Zig comes in. I’m using Zig to handle the raw C-ABI kernel communication and wrapping it into a Rust shared library. Key Features: Mod