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![ZIG](http://ziglang.org/zig-logo.svg)
A system programming language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and
readability.
Zig is a small, simple language, yet powerful. Zig fits into the same niche
as C, except does everything better.
Zig ships with a build system that obviates the need for a configure script
or a makefile. In fact, existing C and C++ projects may choose to depend on
Zig instead of e.g. cmake.
A programming language which prioritizes optimality, robustness, and
clarity.
[ziglang.org](http://ziglang.org)
## Feature Highlights
* Small, simple language. Focus on debugging your application rather than
debugging your knowledge of your programming language.
* Ships with a build system that obviates the need for a configure script
or a makefile. In fact, existing C and C++ projects may choose to depend on
Zig instead of e.g. cmake.
* A fresh take on error handling which makes writing correct code easier than
writing buggy code.
* Debug mode optimizes for fast compilation time and crashing with a stack trace
when undefined behavior *would* happen.
* Release mode produces heavily optimized code. What other projects call
"Link Time Optimization" Zig does automatically.
* Compatible with C libraries with no wrapper necessary. Directly include
C .h files and get access to the functions and symbols therein.
* Provides standard library which competes with the C standard library and is
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* Tagged union type instead of raw unions.
* Generics so that one can write efficient data structures that work for any
data type.
* Provides an error type with several syntatic constructs which makes writing
robust code convenient and straightforward. Writing correct code is easier
than writing buggy code.
* No header files required. Top level declarations are entirely
order-independent.
* Compile-time code execution. Compile-time reflection.
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a preprocessor or macros.
* The binaries produced by Zig have complete debugging information so you can,
for example, use GDB to debug your software.
* Debug mode optimizes for fast compilation time and crashing with a stack trace
when undefined behavior *would* happen.
* Release mode produces heavily optimized code. What other projects call
"Link Time Optimization" Zig does automatically.
* Mark functions as tests and automatically run them with `zig test`.
* Friendly toward package maintainers. Reproducible build, bootstrapping
process carefully documented. Issues filed by package maintainers are
considered especially important.
* Cross-compiling is a primary use case.
* Zig Build System competes with make, cmake, autotools, SCons, etc.
* In addition to creating executables, creating a C library is a primary use
case. You can export an auto-generated .h file.
* Standard library supports Operating System abstractions for: