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Zig Alive

Zig
KindProgramming language
Appeared2016
StatusAlive
CreatorAndrew Kelley
FamilyC
Sourceziglang.org ↗

C without the undefined-behavior traps — comptime, explicit allocators, and a toolchain that cross-compiles better than clang's own.

Created by Andrew Kelley

Andrew Kelley's Zig (2016) — 'a better C' — removed the hidden control flow: no allocators hidden, no exceptions, comptime as the metaprogramming story, and C interop without the FFI.\n\nBun, Tigerbeetle, and the C-replacement crowd adopted it; it is the most-adopted 'post-C' language in systems.

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Sources

  1. ziglang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_(programming_language)