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* no longer depend on apt.llvm.org, instead we rely on a zig-bootstrap tarball with pre-built Zig, LLVM, LLD, and Clang. Similar to the Windows Dev Kit but for Linux. This also makes the script no longer depend on Docker, libxml2, or GCC. * remove bash retry logic; it was only needed for flaky apt.llvm.org and isn't needed for the other resources we download. * build and upload the experimental std lib automatically generated docs. langref.html is moved to docs/langref.html because the std lib docs are in docs/std/. * the superfluous "zig" directory in $prefix/lib/zig/std/std.zig is removed from the tarball. * update_download_page makes a commit in the www.ziglang.org repository updating data/releases.json so that repository can manage deploys.
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.