0.8.0 Release Notes ⚡ The Zig Programming Language

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Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

Backed by the Zig Software Foundation, the project is financially sustainable and offers billable hours for core team members:

This release features 7 months of work and changes from 144 different contributors, spread among 2711 commits.

A green check mark (✅) indicates the target meets all the requirements for the support tier. The other icons indicate what is preventing the target from reaching the support tier. In other words, the icons are to-do items. If you find any wrong data here please submit a pull request!

Since Zig ships with MinGW-w64, Zig can be used to compile C and C++ code on Windows without having MSVC installed. However, before this release, it was not obvious how to take advantage of this feature, since the default behavior was to integrate with MSVC.

In this release, the default behavior is to ignore MSVC and do everything based only on the Zig installation. This makes using Zig to compile C and C++ code on Windows an "it just works" experience.