zig/README.md
Andrew Kelley 1afea36a16 update readme installation instructions
The readme now links to the wiki for instructions on building from
source. I plan to make many updates to the wiki soon as I start to
provide tarballs for working on the compiler.
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ZIG

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

Resources

Installation

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.