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Top 23 Zig Zig Projects
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Interesting, I hadn’t run across that but that’s probably just my problem domain. I did find this bug that looks like it was resolved a year ago https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24184 and I have also read they are doing some other work on floating point that will hopefully address other cross-platform inconsistencies.
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Project mention: Your headless browser has as many cookie jars as it has CDP connections | dev.to | 2026-09-09
The setup was simple on paper: a Chrome extension exports the cookies of a site you are logged into on your desktop, a local relay injects them into Lightpanda, and an agent drives that Lightpanda instance through the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Real logins, no password storage, no OTP babysitting.
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ly
A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD (mirror of https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly).
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zls
A language server for Zig supporting developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition
> Zig, by comparison, offered little beyond syntax highlighting and basic autocompletion.
Zig has a language server and "The majority of LSP features are supported" (https://github.com/zigtools/zls#features).
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Luckily Zig makes this quite easy to do. In Mach[0] we are able to just `zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux-gnu.2.28` to build GUI apps against an ~8 year old glibc version for maximum compatibility.
This is possible because Zig allows for targeting most glibc versions out of the box with its cross-compilation support.
[0] https://machengine.org
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Whatever direction this line of inquiry goes, the compositor / window manager split that Isaac Freund and company built into River [0] is the future and would be the perfect platform on which people could build the environments that explore it. Freund's blog post "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager" [1] and the talk of the same name (linked in the post) are awesome. The list of compatible WM's [2] grows by the day. [3]
[0] https://codeberg.org/river/river
[1] https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
[2] https://codeberg.org/river/wiki/src/branch/main/pages/wm-lis...
[3] I even had Claude vibe-code one for me based on a Dfns / tacit-where-possible style of APL, heavily commented so I could learn some new stuff about APL. I haven't shared it publicly since River has a no-LLM policy and I want to respect that.
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Project mention: Zig's New BitCast Semantics and LLVM Back End Improvements | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-25
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Cubyz
Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.
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libxev
libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + WASI. Available as both a Zig and C API.
Project mention: A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-27Also worth checking out libxev[1] by Mitchell Hashimoto. It’s a Zig based event loop (similar to libuv) inspired by Tigerbeetle’s implementation.
[1] https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev
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- Free online book [Introduction to Zig](https://pedropark99.github.io/zig-book) by Pedro Park. Project-based
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mtproto.zig
Keep the people you love connected — a tiny self-hosted Telegram proxy that hides in plain HTTPS
Project mention: Mtproto.zig – High-performance Telegram proxy with DPI evasion | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-03 -
Zig actually bundles LLVM's Clang, which it uses to compile C with the `zig cc` command. But the long term goal seems to not be so tightly coupled to LLVM, so I'm expecting that to move elsewhere. They still do some clever stuff around compiler-rt, allowing it to be better at cross-compilation than raw Clang, but the bulk of it is mostly just Clang.
There is also another C compiler written in Zig, Aro[1], which seems to be much more complete than TFA. Zig started using that as a library for its TranslateC functionality (for translating C headers into Zig, not whole programs) in 0.16.
[1]: https://github.com/Vexu/arocc
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mlx-serve
Native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. No Python. Zig backend, Swift frontend macOS app with chat, music, voice, video generation.
Project mention: vllm-mlx on Apple Silicon: Continuous Batching Works, but Unified Memory Sets the Real Limit | dev.to | 2026-10-09Instead, we reviewed the installation instructions and CLI options, then assessed throughput and configuration trade-offs using the Apple Silicon benchmark cases for vllm-mlx continuous batching, mlx-serve performance, and mlxcel scheduling. We did not execute an installation or CLI contract test in the sandbox. We used the throughput values below as benchmark reference points, not as measurements from this Linux host or a validated production capacity envelope.
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zig-cookbook
Simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices to accomplish common programming tasks.
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Project mention: FastAPI-compatible Python framework with Zig HTTP core; 7x faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-18
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Zig projects in Zig? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | zig | 43,304 |
| 2 | browser | 36,143 |
| 3 | ly | 7,617 |
| 4 | zls | 5,218 |
| 5 | mach | 4,845 |
| 6 | ziglings | 4,670 |
| 7 | river | 4,311 |
| 8 | zml | 4,158 |
| 9 | Cubyz | 3,698 |
| 10 | libxev | 3,588 |
| 11 | zig-gamedev | 2,869 |
| 12 | zig-book | 2,708 |
| 13 | capy | 2,702 |
| 14 | flow | 2,455 |
| 15 | microzig | 2,295 |
| 16 | mtproto.zig | 2,126 |
| 17 | arocc | 1,846 |
| 18 | mlx-serve | 1,826 |
| 19 | http.zig | 1,609 |
| 20 | buzz | 1,532 |
| 21 | zig-cookbook | 1,183 |
| 22 | zigup | 1,125 |
| 23 | turboAPI | 1,008 |
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