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Announcing the Zig Software Foundation on Saturday, July 11th
Dear patrons,Today I bring you exciting news. Thanks to your ongoing support, this past year I was able to start the Zig Software Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, dedicated to advancing the Zig programming language project, improving the open-source ecosystem of high quality softwa...
Why I'm donating $150/month to the musl libc project
Hello patrons,I thought that you should know I've decided to donate $150/month to musl libc, a project that has been instrumental in Zig's development. Read the blog post to learn more. As an open source project receiving funding via donations, I think it's important to, in turn, support...
January 2018 in Review
Here's everything that happened in January 2018. You can alternately read this on my personal blog.LLVM 6 ReadinessLLVM 6.0.0rc2 was just announced on the mailing list. It's scheduled to be released on February 21, and Zig is ready. I plan to have Zig release 0.2.0 one week after LLVM 6 come...
December 2017 in Review
Here's everything that happened in December 2017.You can alternately read this on my personal blog: http://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-december-2017-in-review.htmlenum tag typesYou can now specify the tag type for an enum (#305):<code>const Small2 = enum (u2) { One, Two,};</code>If you specify the ...
We launched the first beta!
Thank you deeply to all my supporters. After some weeks of hard work finishing up the first release, users can now download Zig 0.1.1 from the download page.
printf is no special case
In C, compile-time checked arguments for printf is special-case functionality built into the compiler.Zig's compile-time features allow enough expressiveness that we can implement a more efficient printf and do the argument checking all in the standard library - no special-case code in the compi...
Hello World kernel written in Zig
Part of making a system programming language is programming a system!This is why I am creating a demo project called ClashOS . This is a work-in-progress arcade-game-as-an-operating-system that runs on the Raspberry Pi 3.The project is already causing me to make countless bug fixes and usability imp...
