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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by kristoff_it on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:48AM (#24616545)
I think most people actively involved in the community are compiling Zig from master branch or downloading the nightly builds. Zig releases are tied to LLVM so there's usually 6 months between releases, which is way too much time to stay without new features, given the speed of improvement of the language.

I think yours is a fair point, but that's how things are. If you prefer using a tagged version and not have to be too involved in the latest developments of Zig, please consider waiting until 0.8.0 at the very least.

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by jiofih on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:20PM (#24619006)
The site specifically instructs you to visit the releases page which only offers 0.6.0
Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by alexnask on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:26PM (#24619080)
This is just not true, the master build is literally the first thing you see on the download page.

Don't get me wrong, it should be clarified on the ziglearn website anyway.

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by Arnavion on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:02PM (#24621697)
>This is just not true, the master build is literally the first thing you see on the download page.

"Literally the first thing" that I see on the download page is:

>Releases

>You can also [install Zig from a package manager.](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Install-Zig-from-a-Packa...)

Going by the AUR package script and the table in the wiki itself, those instructions will install 0.6.0. This is also what gravitas said in the OP of this thread.

Anyway, I see ziglearn.org has now been fixed to make it clear, with https://github.com/Sobeston/ziglearn/commit/10b14426e26ffcdb... , so all's well now.

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by AndyKelley on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:47PM (#24619983)
I knew we should have added a <blink> tag