To provide some more context, here is a snippet from the latest release notes[0]: > Having a package manager built into the Zig compiler is a long-anticipated

To provide some more context, here is a snippet from the latest release notes[0]: > Having a package manager built into the Zig compiler is a long-anticipated feature. Zig 0.8.0 does not have this feature. > If the package manager works well, people will use it, which means building Zig projects will involve compiling more lines of Zig code, which means the Zig compiler must get faster, better at incremental compilation, and better at resource management. > Therefore, the package manager depends on finishing the Self-Hosted Compiler, since it is planned to have these improved performance characteristics, while the Bootstrap Compiler is not planned to have them. I can't help but mention, I am incredibly excited about how well the self-hosted compiler is coming along. Progress is swift, and all the ambitious design decisions (fully incremental compilation[1], extremely fast debug builds[2], low memory usage, multi-threaded) are intact. I anticipate it to make quite a splash once it becomes generally usable. I don't expect the package manager to take nearly as long to develop. [0]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#Package-Manager-Status https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#Packag... [1]: https://vimeo.com/491488902 https://vimeo.com/491488902 [2]: https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1416485475125141504 https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1416485475125141504