From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Cody Tapscott (screenname: topolarity). Cody excels at troubleshooting and debugging. He fearlessly deep dives into unfamiliar areas of code, relentlessly attacking the problem until a solution presents itself. In addition, Cody has proven to be a steadfast community leader, setting an example for how to treat others with kindness and respect. I look forward to working with Cody as we continue to push Zig toward 1.0.0 and beyond.
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce our newest two Zig team members, Luuk de Gram and Joachim Schmidt. Luuk has taken upon himself to be the resident WebAssembly expert. He wrote our self-hosted wasm linker from scratch, as well as pushing forward on our self-hosted wasm backend, which is already passing 46% of the behavior tests. Joachim has been working on our self-hosted codegen backends, particularly ARM - diligently rewriting the register allocator in order to satisfy our design constraints of fast compilation with decent runtime performance.
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Zig monthly, November 2021: Pixel art editor, meetup talks, Advent of Code & more Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 02:36:05 +0000 From: Zig monthly <zigmonthly@mail.buttondown.email> Reply-To: news@zigmonthly.org To: andrew@ziglang.org Curated Zig news brought to you by @slimsag <https://github.com/slimsag> each month. View online: zigmonthly.org <https://zigmonthly.org/letters>
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hello everyone! I'm pleased to announce the release of Zig 0.8.1. https://ziglang.org/download/#release-0.8.1 https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.1/release-notes.html These release notes debut some new mascot art :) Regards, Andrew
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, kprotty. If you've interacted with him, you know that he has an insatiable appetite for concurrency-related performance, based on a deep understanding that only comes from dedication and experimentation. Check out his related Showtime talks: [1] Build Build-A-Barging Lock [2] Schedulers and Stuff [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqKaKg_gvw [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsXxtHGv90
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Frank. He has completely organized, modernized, fixed, and fleshed out std.crypto, as well as other parts of the standard library. He also delivered a [Zig Showtime talk on 25519](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4_cNAq1uQ). Frank has shown continued dedication and discipline in contributions to the Zig programming language project. The quality of his work speaks for itself. In addition, Frank has proven to be a steadfast community leader, setting an example for how to treat others with kindness and respect.
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hello everyone! I'm pleased to announce the release of Zig 0.7.1. https://ziglang.org/download/#release-0.7.1 https://ziglang.org/download/0.7.1/release-notes.html Regards, Andrew
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Greetings, friends. Here we are, facing one last postponing of the 0.7.0 release. Technically, things are progressing as planned. However, last Thursday my landlord unexpectedly threatened my safety and so I found myself in an emergency where I had to move myself and all my belongings to a temporary residence. I'm still figuring out where to go from here while I get this release out the door, and so I need a little bit extra time. I'm sorry to postpone the release yet again, but I know a lot of you would like to try to stick to 0.7.0 rather than track master branch, and so I want to make sure this one comes out stable enough for that to be a possibility. In more uplifting news, Loris is hosting a release party on Zig
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Hello everyone, Previously, I postponed the release date of Zig 0.7.0 to October 26 of this month due to the delayed release of LLVM 11. Since then, LLVM 11 released and the llvm11 branch of Zig was merged into master. On that front we have a green light. However, I personally am behind on some of the chores associated with the release, such as typing up release notes, as well as a few issues that are critical to solve before the release. To be honest I burnt myself out a little bit last month working on #6250 [1] and I've been trying to have a bit more work-life balance this month to recover. So I am taking more week before cutting the tag. This will give enough
From Andrew Kelley to ~andrewrk/ziglang
Why hello frens, I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Jakub. He has been doing excellent work on Windows file system abstractions in the standard library, and recently has been working on [MachO linking](https://twitter.com/kubkon/status/1311206551835697152). Jakub has shown continued dedication and discipline in contributions to the Zig programming language project. The quality of his work speaks for itself. In addition, Jakub has proven to be a steadfast community leader, setting an example for how to treat others with kindness and respect.