Zig

Zig is a system programming language designed to be a general-purpose improvement to the C programming language. It is free and open-source software, released under an MIT License. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2015
Developed by: Andrew Kelley
Aliases: Ziglang, Zig language, Zig programming language
File extensions: zig, zon

Wikidata: Q51885456

Influenced: Mojo

Influenced by: CC++GoJavaScriptRust

Programming paradigms: imperative programmingprocedural programminggeneric programmingconcurrent computingfunctional programming

Language types: procedural programming languagecompiled languagefunctional programming languagesystems programming languageimperative programming languagegeneral-purpose programming languagemulti-paradigm programming language

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Hello World in Zig

const std = @import("std");

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

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