Glossary

The below terms may be helpful if you're new to zig, compilers, or low-level programming.

AIR

Analyzed Intermediate Representation

Comptime

Compile-time.

ELF

"Executable and Linkable Format, formerly named Extensible Linking Format, is a common standard file format for executable files, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps." -Executable and Linkable Format on Wikipedia

IR

Intermediate representation

LLVM

LLVM is a set of compiler and toolchain technologies. LLVM is used for [TODO].

LLVM IR

LLVM Intermediate Representation

Semantic Analysis

Semantic analysis is the stage at which the ZIR is analyzed, compile-time calculations are done, ... [TODO: more details]. The output of the semantic analysis stage in the pipeline is AIR.

ZIR

Zig Intermediate Representation. [TODO: what is it used for?]