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Description:
Programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | @ziglang | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: programming-language zig compiler systems c-alternative

Install: brew install zig

About:
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. It focuses on exposing edge cases in the programming language and compiler, providing manual memory management with a simple build system. Zig serves as a replacement for C, offering better compile-time code execution and a focus on debugging.

Key Features:

Manual memory management without a garbage collector
Powerful compile-time code execution and reflection
Seamless C interoperability without FFI bindings
Single build system and toolchain for cross-compilation

Use Cases:

Systems programming and operating system development
High-performance application development
Embedded systems programming
Replacing C/C++ codebases for improved safety and clarity

Alternatives:

Rust – Rust offers memory safety via ownership/borrowing, whereas Zig focuses on simplicity and manual memory management with safety checks.
C – Zig provides modern tooling, compile-time execution, and safer defaults while maintaining C's low-level control.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 15, 2025 9:28am		0	VERSION_BUMP	ec7115b6
Nov 26, 2024 12:17am		0	VERSION_BUMP	e8085a29