Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. October 24, 2026Partial Operator Precedence Author: Ryan LiptakAs of yesterday, the second oldest open proposal for the Zig language was issue #114: require parentheses sometimes to disambiguate confusing operator precedence, opened February 8, 2016. Ten years later, that proposal has been implemented in the master branch version of Zig thanks to contributor CMDRZero.This means that some combinations of operators no longer have a defined precedence, and for those that don’t, the compiler will now require parentheses:const a = x orelse y == z; test.zig:1:22: error: ambiguous operator precedence with operators ... orelse ... == ...; use parentheses to disambiguate const a = x orelse y == z; ^~ test.zig:1:13: note: previous ambiguous operator here const a = x orelse y == z; ^~~~~~ test.zig:1:22: note: in zig 0.17.x, this was evaluated as (... orelse ...)

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