Zig Glossary

Browse 4 zig terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

4 Zig Terms

Comptime
A Zig language keyword that forces an expression to be evaluated at compile time rather than runtime, enabling powerful metaprogramming and generic programming...
Error Union
A Zig language type that combines a normal return type with a set of possible error values, forcing callers to handle errors explicitly. Written as !T or...
No Hidden Control Flow
A language design principle (notably in Zig and Go) where all control flow is explicit and visible in the source code — no hidden function calls from operator...
Zig Community
The ecosystem of developers, maintainers, educators, and experimenters working with the Zig programming language. In systems-language culture, the Zig...

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