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* AstGen: represent compile errors in ZIR rather than returning `error.AnalysisFail`. * ZIR: remove decl_ref and decl_val instructions. These are replaced by `decl_ref_named` and `decl_val_named`, respectively, which will probably get renamed in the future to the instructions that were just deleted. * AstGen: implement `@This()`, `@fence()`, `@returnAddress()`, and `@src()`. * AstGen: struct_decl improved to support fields_len=0 but have decls. * AstGen: fix missing null bytes after compile error messages. * SrcLoc: no longer depend on `Decl`. Instead have an explicit field `parent_decl_node` which is an absolute AST Node index. * Module: `failed_files` table can have null value, in which case the key, which is a `*Scope.File`, will have ZIR errors in it. * ZIR: implement text rendering of struct decls. * CLI: introduce debug_usage and `zig astgen` command which is enabled when the compiler is built in debug mode.
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- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.