Introduction to the Zig Programming Language
Read OriginalThis article introduces the Zig programming language, detailing its core design priorities: being pragmatic, optimal, safe, and readable. It explains key design decisions like diverging debug and release builds, C ABI compatibility, replacing null pointers with a 'Maybe' type, and providing an alternate standard library. The author, who is creating the language, aims for a system language more pragmatic than C.
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