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Kick-start initial work on new cross-platform abstraction for sockets. Adds a test for read timeouts and a test for creating a non-blocking socket pair on Linux. The new Socket abstraction is barebones and is made to support both blocking and non-blocking abstractions, alongside different socket protocols and domains. Support for platform-dependant socket options that handles unsupported platforms gracefully via. comptime checks is provided for the new Socket abstraction. This also marks the first out of many commits for introducing breaking changes to the standard library in a separate `x` folder, which was pre-approved by @andrewrk. The intent for the new `x` package is to introduce new async, event loop, networking, and operating system abstractions that would require breaking the standard library significantly. By having the `x` package, code in the standard library and compiler may then slowly be refactored to use the `x` package. Once modules in the `x` package are stabilized, they can be moved out of the `x` package, and a global 'grep' can be done to update import paths that resolve to the stabilized module in the `x` package.
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.