43 stories tagged zig, newest first.
95 points by eiopa | 25 comments
Landing page for Corgi, a terminal multiplexer for managing AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, with activity tracking, token usage, and worktrees.
40 points by Ygg2 | 14 comments
A blog post proposing a convention for compile-time Traits in Zig as comptime structs of functions, compared with interfaces/vtables and comptime duck typing.
236 points by lukaslalinsky | 84 comments
Blog post by Lukáš Lalinský describing an approach to type-safe HTML templating in the Zig programming language for web development.
4 points by peterpanhead | 0 comments
A blog post on fetching AMD SEV-SNP attestation reports from a guest VM using the Zig programming language.
209 points by ErenayDev | 132 comments
Official release notes for Zig 0.17.0, covering five months of work from 206 contributors including a reworked build system, Build Server Protocol, and ELF linker improvements.
438 points by tomlockwood | 333 comments
A developer blog post examining the progress and claims around Bun's AI-assisted rewrite from Zig to Rust, framed as a showcase for Anthropic's AI.
488 points by jorangreef | 257 comments
Richard Feldman's blog post reporting on the Roc compiler team's rewrite of 300,000 lines of Rust into Zig, which recently reached feature parity.
1264 points by crowdhailer | 634 comments
Ray Myers blog post contrasting the Zig creator's stance on AI with Anthropic's campaign to replace software engineering.
367 points by veqq | 207 comments
Blog interview by Alex Alejandre with Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, discussing terminals, the Ghostty project, Zig, and open source.
369 points by kristoff_it | 269 comments
Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, writes a blog post reflecting on Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust and Jarred Sumner's history with the Zig community.
692 points by afturner | 428 comments
Bun blog post by Jarred Sumner explaining the decision to rewrite the Bun JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust, partly using Claude.
750 points by tosh | 249 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing his family's pledge of another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing their total to $700,000.
353 points by tosh | 230 comments
Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley describing a reworked build system that splits zig build into a debug-compiled configurer process and a cached release-mode maker process.
644 points by Chaoses | 705 comments
A merged GitHub pull request in the oven-sh/bun repository that rewrites the Bun JavaScript runtime in Rust, spanning 6755 commits and 2188 changed files.
678 points by heldrida | 644 comments
A tweet from Jarred Sumner reporting that Bun's experimental Rust rewrite passes 99.8% of tests on Linux x64 glibc.
680 points by SergeAx | 497 comments
A GitHub commit in the oven-sh/bun repository adding a Phase-A porting guide (docs/PORTING.md) on a claude/phase-a-port branch, related to porting Bun from Zig to Rust.
618 points by lumpa | 401 comments
Simon Willison note on Zig's strict anti-LLM contribution policy and its rationale, noting Bun's fork of Zig and its AI-assisted compiler improvements.
376 points by Retro_Dev | 210 comments
Zig devlog entry by Matthew Lugg describing a merged 30,000-line PR redesigning the Zig compiler's type resolution, with related language changes.
342 points by Retro_Dev | 248 comments
Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley announcing that io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch implementations of the std.Io interface have landed.
317 points by ingve | 131 comments
Zig devlog entry by Andrew Kelley on the zig libc subproject, which replaces vendored C libc code with Zig standard library wrapper implementations.
583 points by thorel | 122 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post explaining the cause of a major memory leak in the Ghostty terminal emulator, how it was tracked down, and how it was fixed.
634 points by snvzz | 386 comments
Git repository page for Phoenix, a new X server written from scratch in Zig as a modern alternative to the Xorg server, currently in early development.
380 points by yurivish | 449 comments
A blog post by Sinclair Target comparing Go, Rust, and Zig after experimenting with each, discussing the design trade-offs and what each language is good for.
924 points by Brajeshwar | 542 comments
The Register article reporting that the Zig Software Foundation is moving from GitHub to Codeberg, citing GitHub's decline under Microsoft's AI focus and an unaddressed Actions bug.
317 points by messe | 228 comments
LWN article by Daroc Alden describing Zig's new approach to asynchronous I/O that avoids function coloring, letting code run synchronously or asynchronously.
447 points by todsacerdoti | 131 comments
A Zigtools blog post alleging that the Zigbook learning resource plagiarized code from the Zigtools Playground.
803 points by todsacerdoti | 698 comments
Zig project news post announcing the migration of its main repository from GitHub to Codeberg, citing GitHub's decline under Microsoft.
672 points by rudedogg | 332 comments
Zigbook is a free, open-source, project-based book teaching the Zig programming language across 61 chapters, advertised as written without AI.
529 points by vitalnodo | 467 comments
An article by Nilo Stolte presenting the Zig programming language's appealing features, such as its compiler that compiles C and cross-compiles.
378 points by derekcollison | 109 comments
Synadia blog post announcing that Synadia and TigerBeetle are pledging $512K to the Zig Software Foundation to support systems programming.
409 points by emschwartz | 191 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.
774 points by kingori | 243 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing libghostty, starting with libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state.
320 points by mpweiher | 153 comments
A blog post and repository for lsr, a Zig reimplementation of the Unix ls command that uses io_uring to reduce syscalls.
337 points by afirium | 243 comments
Blog post by Loris Cro explaining Zig's new I/O interface announced in the Zig Roadmap 2026 stream and how it revives async/await in Zig.
441 points by JadedBlueEyes | 180 comments
A blog post by matklad explaining the deliberate restrictions of Zig's comptime feature, such as no host leakage, and how it stays expressive despite them.
440 points by klaussilveira | 167 comments
The crates.io page for crabtime, a Rust procedural macro that evaluates inline Rust code at compile time to generate code, similar to Zig's comptime.
322 points by todsacerdoti | 237 comments
A GitHub Gist by Richard Feldman explaining why the Roc programming language's compiler is being rewritten from Rust in Zig.
414 points by todsacerdoti | 218 comments
Blog post by Scott Redig explaining Zig's comptime metaprogramming feature through six different conceptual views, with examples.
2110 points by matrixhelix | 615 comments
Homepage of Ghostty, a fast, native terminal emulator, featuring an ASCII-art ghost animation and download and documentation links.
469 points by tosh | 142 comments
Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that he and his wife pledged $300,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, and explaining why they support it.
360 points by dsp_person | 45 comments
GitHub repository for Spice, a Zig library providing fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead using fork/join.
328 points by behnamoh | 287 comments
A personal dev-log post explaining why the author is learning Common Lisp in 2023 after experimenting with languages like Nim, Zig, and Janet.
352 points by signa11 | 259 comments
A personal blog essay by Ratfactor arguing that the Zig programming language is hard to learn but worth the effort, illustrated with a cartoon.