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zig lang
An experiment in writing a low-level programming language with the intent to replace C. Zig intends to be a small language, yet powerful enough to write readable, safe, optimal, and concise code to solve any computing problem.
Goals
- Ability to run arbitrary code at compile time and generate code.
- Completely compatible with C libraries with no wrapper necessary.
- Creating a C library should be a primary use case. Should be easy to export an auto-generated .h file.
- Generics such as containers.
- Do not depend on libc.
- First class error code support.
- Include documentation generator.
- Eliminate the need for make, cmake, etc.
- Friendly toward package maintainers.
- Eliminate the need for C headers (when using zig internally).
- Ability to declare dependencies as Git URLS with commit locking (can provide a tag or sha1).
- Rust-style enums.
- Opinionated when it makes life easier.
- Tab character in source code is a compile error.
- Whitespace at the end of line is a compile error.
- Resilient to parsing errors to make IDE integration work well.
- Source code is UTF-8.
Roadmap
- Hello, world.
- How should the Widget use case be solved? In Genesis I'm using C++ and inheritance.