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Over the last year of using std.log in practice, it has become clear to me that having the current 8 distinct log levels does more harm than good. It is too subjective which level a given message should have which makes filtering based on log level weaker as not all messages will have been assigned the log level one might expect. Instead, more granular filtering should be achieved by leveraging the logging scope feature. Filtering based on a combination of scope and log level should be sufficiently powerful for all use-cases. Note that the self hosted compiler has already limited itself to 4 distinct log levels for many months and implemented granular filtering based on both log scope and level. This has worked very well in practice while working on the self hosted compiler.
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.