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We were violating the POSIX standard which resulted in a deadlock on musl v1.1.24 on aarch64 alpine linux, uncovered with the new ThreadPool usage in the stage2 compiler. std.os execv functions that accept an Allocator parameter are removed because they are footguns. The POSIX standard does not allow calls to malloc() between fork() and execv() and since it is common to both (1) call execv() after fork() and (2) use std.heap.c_allocator, Programmers are encouraged to go through the `std.process` API instead, causing some dissonance when combined with `std.os` APIs. I also slapped a big warning message on all the relevant doc comments.
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.