Zig Programming Language

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

Yet another system language wanted to replace C.

Interoperable by design
C friendly ABI
uses Clang for parsing header and compiling C code
uses llvm as backend for optimization
#zig as a C compiler
Many supported targets
No system libc dependency (Zig ships with many libc)
errdefer (more advanced than defer in Go)
typical pattern is to deinit() in defer
Compile-time code execution
Made bun

Home ⚡ Zig Programming Language
ziglang/zig: General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Zig (programming language) - Wikiwand
zigtools zls (language server)

zig init-exe

zig init-lib

zig env
zig zen

catdevnull/awesome-zig: A list of awesome projects related to Zig
C-BJ/awesome-zig: 📜Zig Learning Guide & Project Lists
nrdmn/awesome-zig 😴inactive
build system terminology update: package, project, module, dependency · Issue #14307 · ziglang/zig

Zig in 100 Seconds - YouTube
CppCast Episode 342: Zig with Andrew Kelley - YouTube 2022

Prime Reacts: Is This NEW Language BETTER Than Rust? C++? (Zig First Impressions) - YouTube
Zig is FASTER and SAFER than Rust | Prime Reacts - YouTube

Loris Cro's Personal Website
Andrew Kelley

Roadmap

The Road to Zig 1.0 - Andrew Kelley - YouTube 2019-05
Zig Roadmap 2023 - Andrew Kelley - YouTube 2022-04, history
Zig Status Update & Demo - Cross Compilation & Async Functions - YouTube

Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig ⚡ Zig Programming Language 2022-12
Zig Is Bootstrapping With WASM, Why? - YouTube

Learn

Documentation - The Zig Programming Language
Learn ⚡ Zig Programming Language
ratfactor/ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ziglearn.org
How To Zig?
Zig Crash Course - Gamedev Guide
In-depth Overview ⚡ Zig Programming Language

Zig in 30 minutes

Introduction to the Zig Programming Language - Andrew Kelley 2019
Intro to the Zig Programming Language • Andrew Kelley • GOTO 2022 - YouTube
Understanding the Zig Programming Language | The Startup

Zig - YouTube Context Free
Zig SHOWTIME - YouTube semi-official Youtube channel

Commentaries

Zig language: a WAY better C! - YouTube 2021
3 things you might like about Zig - YouTube

When Zig is safer and faster than Rust
Zig is FASTER and SAFER than Rust | Prime Reacts - YouTube
Zig And Rust

A Review of the Zig Programming Language (using Advent of Code 2021) :: Neil Henning 2021
My Zig Experience | Prime Reacts - YouTube

Internals

Zig Compiler Internals - Andrew Kelley - YouTube Zig code tour

What's a Memory Allocator Anyway? - Benjamin Feng - YouTube

zig as a C compiler

use zig as a c compiler · Issue #490 · ziglang/zig

ar
cc
c++
dlltool
lib
ranlib

zig cc: a Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang - Andrew Kelley

Chapter 3 - Build system | ziglearn.org
zig build explained Series' Articles - Zig NEWS
Zig Build - Gamedev Guide

Zig Build System - In-depth Overview ⚡ Zig Programming Language
Maintain it With Zig | Loris Cro's Blog
Compile a C/C++ Project with Zig - Zig NEWS
Make Zig Your C/C++ Build System - Zig NEWS
Extend a C/C++ Project with Zig - Zig NEWS

Updating libc · ziglang/zig Wiki

Cross Compile

zig targets
zig targets | jq ". | keys"
zig targets | jq .arch
zig targets | jq .libc  # this would be the target triple

zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-windows