0.11.0 Release Notes

• zig

  816 30,631 10.0 Zig

  General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  

1. It's typically at least as fast as C, unlike C++/Rust

2. You can do type introspection (and switching) during compile-time, and it's not just some stupid TokenStream transformer, you really have type information available, you can do if/else on the presence of methods, etc.

3. There are no generics, but your functions can accept anytype, which is still type-safe. See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/9c05810be60756e07bd7fee0... and note the return type is "computed" from the type of the input.

4. Types are first-class values (during comptime), so any function can return a new type, this is how you get generic types, without (syntax/checking) support for generics.

5. You can easily call anything which does not allocate in these comptime blocks.

6. There's @compileError which you can use for custom type assertions -> therefore, you have programmable type-system.

• bun

  288 70,488 10.0 Zig

  Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

  

Bun, a JavaScript runtime (uses WebKit as an engine I believe) is written in Zig. They seem to be doing alright:

https://bun.sh/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• mach

  36 2,787 9.7 Zig

  zig game engine & graphics toolkit

  

A game engine https://machengine.org is being written in zig, there's also https://microzig.tech as zig is well suited to embedded development.

• zigself

  2 142 8.4 Zig

  An implementation of the Self programming language in Zig

I don't know about "daily" right now (I've had to take a break due to obligations), but I'm working on a modern implementation of the Self programming language with actor capabilities: https://github.com/sin-ack/zigself

It's nowhere near usable yet, but Zig has been a joy to work with for over a year, and I can definitely see myself using it for a big piece of software.

• MiniPixel

  1 163 5.6 Zig

  A tiny pixel art editor

I use Zig for all my hobby projects:

* A pixel art editor https://github.com/fabioarnold/MiniPixel

* A Mega Man clone https://github.com/fabioarnold/zeroman

* Zig Gorillas https://github.com/fabioarnold/zig-gorillas

And most recently I had the opportunity to build a visualization for TigerBeetle's database simulator: https://sim.tigerbeetle.com

Before I was using C++ and Zig has been an improvement in every way.

• zeroman

  2 90 7.4 Zig

I use Zig for all my hobby projects:

* A pixel art editor https://github.com/fabioarnold/MiniPixel

* A Mega Man clone https://github.com/fabioarnold/zeroman

* Zig Gorillas https://github.com/fabioarnold/zig-gorillas

And most recently I had the opportunity to build a visualization for TigerBeetle's database simulator: https://sim.tigerbeetle.com

Before I was using C++ and Zig has been an improvement in every way.

• zig-gorillas

  1 53 4.8 C

  A clone of the classic QBasic Gorillas written in the Zig programming language

I use Zig for all my hobby projects:

* A pixel art editor https://github.com/fabioarnold/MiniPixel

* A Mega Man clone https://github.com/fabioarnold/zeroman

* Zig Gorillas https://github.com/fabioarnold/zig-gorillas

And most recently I had the opportunity to build a visualization for TigerBeetle's database simulator: https://sim.tigerbeetle.com

Before I was using C++ and Zig has been an improvement in every way.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• http.zig

  2 333 9.1 Zig

  An HTTP/1.1 server for zig

I took a year off, and one of the things I did was learn Zig. I've built a number of libraries, including one of the currently more popular HTTP server libraries (https://github.com/karlseguin/http.zig).

A number of my libraries are used for https://www.aolium.com/ which I decided to write for myself.

I try to write a bit every day with the benefit that I can "waste" time digging into things or exploring likely-to-fail paths.

• wasm-bench

  1 6 5.4 JavaScript

Fast and compact WASM builds are builtin to Zig's toolchain:

https://github.com/mattdesl/wasm-bench

• FrameworkBenchmarks

  366 7,384 9.8 Java

  Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

  

It shouldn't be hard to make Zig go to top place then, which is great opportunity to shine, given that they are still missing Zig entries,

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

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