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Everybody gets what they want! * AT_RANDOM is completely ignored. * On Linux, MADV_WIPEONFORK is used to provide fork safety. * On pthread systems, `pthread_atfork` is used to provide fork safety. * For systems that do not have the capability to provide fork safety, the implementation falls back to calling getrandom() every time. * If madvise is unavailable or returns an error, or pthread_atfork fails for whatever reason, it falls back to calling getrandom() every time. * Applications may choose to opt-out of fork safety. * Applications may choose to opt-in to unconditionally calling getrandom() for every call to std.crypto.random.fillFn. * Added `std.meta.globalOption`. * Added `std.os.madvise` and related bits. * Bumped up the size of the main thread TLS buffer. See the comment there for justification. * Simpler hot path in TLS initialization.
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.