A new Solidity compiler has been released, with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announcing the development on X. The compiler, called oksolc, was built using Zig to reduce the wait for Solidity compilation while maintaining identical generated bytecode. Build time fell from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, while incremental compilation for large projects dropped from 700 seconds to 99 seconds. Some contracts saw compilation speeds improve by more than five times.