Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
A member of the Zig core team explains the implementation and benefits of incremental compilation in the Zig programming language. The feature allows for significantly faster build times by only recompiling changed code.
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 code, and directly patch the resulting bytes into the output binary, making the rebuild extremely fast.
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