Getting Started

Install a master build, compile Hello World, and run your first test. If you are arriving from 0.13 or 0.14, the last chapter lists what moved and what the replacement looks like.

1. This guide follows Zig master, not a tagged release. The compiler named in the footer is the one that compiled every snippet on the site.
2. A test needs no framework and no separate file. A test block in any compiled file is a test, and zig test runs it.
3. Code from a 0.13 or 0.14 tutorial probably does not compile today. That is not your mistake, and the last chapter says what moved.

4 chapters.

• InstallationGetting a Zig master build, and why this guide needs one.
• Hello WorldYour first Zig program, and why main now takes an argument.
• Running TestsTests are part of the language.
• Coming from an Older ZigWhat changed between the last stable releases and the master this guide targets.