Zig

Hello World in Zig

Every programming journey starts with Hello World. Let’s write our first Zig program.

The Code

Create a file named hello.zig:

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const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() ! …

Variables and Types in Zig

Zig is a systems programming language with a static, strong type system that prefers being explicit over being clever. Every binding is either const (immutable) or var (mutable), every numeric …

Operators in Zig

Operators are the verbs of a programming language — they describe what to do with the values your variables hold. Because Zig is a systems language with a “no hidden control flow” …

The Language Inside the Language: A Tour of Metaprogramming

Every programming language eventually runs into the same wall: the programmer knows something at write time that the language cannot express directly. How to serialize a thousand different types …

The Languages That Tried to Kill C++ (And What Happened to Them)

The history of systems programming is, in part, a long procession of people standing up to announce that they had built a better C++.

They weren’t wrong. Many of them had built something better …

How 10 New Programming Languages Are Rewriting the Rules (And Why They Were Born)

Every programming language is, at its core, a written argument. An argument that the languages which came before failed at something important — something worth spending years of your life to fix. …