Motiejus Jakštys
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Now that #11863 is landed, let's expose it to the zig programs that build stuff via `build.zig`. "Benchmarks" with [turbonss](https://git.sr.ht/~motiejus/turbonss): Built with: $ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux-gnu.2.19 -Dcpu=x86_64_v3 -Drelease-small=true *Debug, uncompressed* 174K turbonss-analyze 161K turbonss-getent 1.2M turbonss-unix2db 448K libnss_turbo.so.2.0.0 *Debug, compressed* 78K turbonss-analyze 86K turbonss-getent 572K turbonss-unix2db 190K libnss_turbo.so.2.0.0 *Stripped, for completeness* 17K turbonss-analyze 20K turbonss-getent 197K turbonss-unix2db 26K libnss_turbo.so.2.0.0
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.