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syntax.
* 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 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`.
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process carefully documented. Issues filed by package maintainers are
considered especially important.
* Easy cross-compiling.
* Eliminate the preprocessor, but (most) everything you can accomplish with
the preprocessor, you can accomplish directly in the language.
## Planned Features
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* Generics so that one can write efficient data structures that work for any
data type.
* Eliminate the need for configure, make, cmake, etc.
* Eliminate the preprocessor, but (most) everything you can accomplish with
the preprocessor, you can accomplish directly in the language.
* Automatically provide test coverage.
* Ability to declare dependencies as Git URLS with commit locking (can
provide a tag or sha1).
provide a tag or sha256).
* Include documentation generator.
* Shebang line OK so language can be used for "scripting" as well.
* Debug mode optimizes for fast compilation time and crashing when undefined
behavior *would* happen.
* Compiler exposes itself as a library.
* Support for all popular architectures and operating systems.