January 17, 2025
Hey everyone,
We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update.
To be honest, these quiet times are my personal favorite – when the release pressure is off, there are no upcoming conferences, and there are long stretches of uninterrupted coding on big projects – the ones that require full and undivided attention for days or weeks in a row. Lately I found some lovely trance music compilation albums as well as tearing through Infected Mushroom‘s entire catalogue, and it’s been pure bliss.
Personally, I’ve taken on Zig’s linker code since Jakub decided to move on to other things. Loris has been working on a book, Jacob has been rewriting the x86 backend, and Veikka has been plugging away at an official translate-c package that uses Aro rather than Clang. Matthew has been doing more directly visible work, making language enhancements, frontend bug fixes, as well as working steadily towards incremental compilation. We also have a new Zig core team member, who deserves hi
