zig 0.11.0

General purpose programming language and toolchain

Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain. Among other features it provides

an Optional type instead of null pointers,
manual memory management,
generic data structures and functions,
compile-time reflection and compile-time code execution,
integration with C using zig as a C compiler, and
concurrency via async functions.

Outputs: out, zig1
Website: https://github.com/ziglang/zig
Licenses: Expat
Package source: gnu/packages/zig.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install zig 0.11.0 as follows:

guix install zig@0.11.0

Or install the latest version:

guix install zig

The zig package provides more outputs besides the default (out). You can install them by appending :output-name to the package specification. For example:

guix install zig:zig1

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.