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* Sema: avoid unnecessary safety checks when an error set is empty. * Sema: make zirErrorToInt handle comptime errors that are represented as integers. * Sema: make empty error sets properly integrate with typeHasOnePossibleValue. * Type: correct the ABI alignment and size of error unions which have both zero-bit error set and zero-bit payload. The previous code did not account for the fact that we still need to store a bit for whether there is an error. * LLVM: lower error unions possibly with the payload first or with the error code first, depending on alignment. Previously it always put the error code first and used a padding array. * LLVM: lower functions which have an empty error set as the return type the same as anyerror, so that they can be used where fn()anyerror function pointers are expected. In such functions, Zig will lower ret to returning zero instead of void. As a result, one more behavior test is passing.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Projects
Installation
- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- bootstrap zig for any target
License
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.