Zig

Zig is an open source programming language created in 2015 by Andrew Kelley.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/ziglang/zig

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

Zig website
Zig Wikipedia page
Zig is developed on GitHub and has 14,344 stars
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There are at least 3,909 Zig repos on GitHub
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 20 users using Zig in 21 repos on GitHub
There are 5,511 members in the Zig subreddit
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Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Zig
Release Notes for Zig
Official Blog page for Zig
Frequently Asked Questions for Zig

// Type your code here, or load an example.
export fn square(num: i32) i32 {
    return num * num;
}

Example from Riju:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() anyerror!void {
    std.log.info("Hello, world!", .{});
}

Example from hello-world:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
    try stdout.print("Hello World", .{});
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓
Line Comments	✓
Binary Literals	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Octals	✓
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	std.debug.print

Language features