Zig - Programming language

Zig is an open source programming language created in 2015 by Andrew Kelley.

#45on PLDB

9Years Old

4kRepos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/ziglang/zig

A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity.

Tags: programming language
Zig is developed on GitHub and has 32,864 stars
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There are at least 3,909 Zig repos on GitHub
Zig is written in Zig, C, Assembly language, C++, Pascal, Bourne shell, Markdown, CMake, Python, YAML, Ring, PowerShell, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, Objective-C
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 20 users using Zig in 21 repos on GitHub
There are 5,511 members in the Zig subreddit
Explore Zig snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Zig
Learn Zig on exercism.
12 PLDB concepts link to Zig: Ace Editor, Bio, bog, buzz, cloc, Cyber, mal, PCRE, PRQL, Pygments, Roc, Zig

// Type your code here, or load an example.
export fn square(num: i32) i32 {
    return num * num;
}

Example from Riju:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() anyerror!void {
    std.log.info("Hello, world!", .{});
}

Example from hello-world:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
    try stdout.print("Hello World", .{});
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓
Line Comments	✓
Binary Literals	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Octals	✓
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		std.debug.print