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zigtools / zls

zls

A language server for Zig supporting developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

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5.3KGitHub stars
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A language server for Zig supporting developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

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Observed mentions: 2022-01-18 12:01:53 UTC to 2026-09-20 05:15:45 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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Hi, author of this devlog here! Not to dismiss concerns about breaking language changes, but there seems to be a bit of a misconception here that this compiler change was highly breaking and will require significant effort from Zig users to update for. Perhaps I unintentionally gave that impression in the devlog or the PR writeup, apologies if so---but it's not the case! Although there were breaking changes in this patch, they were quite minor: most users are unlikely to hit them, and if they do then they're straightforward to deal with. For a concrete example, while testing this branch, I tried building ZLS (https://github.com/zigtools/zls/). To do that, the only change I had to make was changing `.{}` to `.empty` in a couple of its dependencies (i.e. not even in ZLS itself!). This was needed because I removed some default values from `s
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td.ArrayList` (so the change was in standard library code rather than the language). Those default values had actually already been deprecated (with intent to remove) for around a year, so this wasn't exactly a new change either. As another example, Andrew has updated Awebo (https://codeberg.org/awebo-chat/awebo), a text and voice chat application, to the new version of Zig. Across Awebo's entire dependency tree (which includes various packages for graphics, audio, and probably some other stuff), the full set of necessary changes was: * Same as above, change `.{}` to `.empty` in a few places, due to removal of deprecated defaults * Add one extra `comptime` annotation to logic which was constructing an array at comptime * Append `orelse @alignOf(T)` onto an expression to deal with a newly-possible `null` case These are all trivial fixes which Zig developers would be able to do pretty much on autopilot upon seeing the compile errors. So, while there were a handful of small breaking changes, they don't seem to me like a particularly big deal (for a language where some level of breakage is still allowed). The main thing this PR achieved was instead a combination of bugfixes, and enhancements to existing features (particularly incremental compilation).
In Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
> […] I've had a lot of issues getting editor integration to work correctly. I've installed the VSCode extension but I don't seem to be getting autocomplete etc. […] If you use ZLS [0], make sure you’re always using the right version for the Zig version you have installed on your machine. In my experience, that fixes 90% of editor issues I’ve encountered using Zig (I don’t use Visual Studio Code though, so it’s possible your editor issues are related to the editor itself). [0]: https://github.com/zigtools/zls
In C Macro Reflection in Zig
> Building is slow. It takes about ~3 seconds minimum which is frustratingly slow when I'm fighting basic syntax errors. I wish there was a fast zig check. > Lack of zig-analyzer makes learning hard. > zig fmt src/main.zig is nice. Wish it automatically ran on all files. I also did (well, "am doing", can only work a bit each day and am plugging through day 7 right now) AdventOfCode in Zig this year. These points here didn't resonate with me at all. I wonder if the author knew about or tried ZLS[0]. I had it on and integrated with my VSCode and it would check a lot of things as I went and format on save. I think I followed something like this[1] to set it up. [0] https://github.com/zigtools/zls [1] https://zig.news/jarredsumner/setting-up-visual-studio-code-...
In Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code

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