Matthew Lugg

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Hi! I’m Matthew. I’m a software developer working primarily on the Zig project. On the rare occasion that I actually work on a side project for long enough that it’s worth publishing, you’ll find it on either Codeberg or GitHub .

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Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals

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As a member of the Zig core team, one of the most impactful projects I’ve been involved with is the implementation of incremental compilation into the Zig compiler. This feature allows the compiler to detect which individual functions and declarations have changed since a project was last built, recompile only that…