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Zig Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to zig
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InfluxDB
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.
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Nim
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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llvm-project
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
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bun
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
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WorkOS
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.
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oil
Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
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TinyGo
Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.
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tigerbeetle
The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
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tigerbeetle
Discontinued A distributed financial accounting database designed for mission critical safety and performance. [Moved to: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle] (by coilhq)
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Hence, a higher number means a better zig alternative or higher similarity.
zig reviews and mentions
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Bun - The One Tool for All Your JavaScript/Typescript Project's Needs?
NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.
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Bun 1.1
I was quite curious about the .bunx file format. I think this could be a quite a useful thing, a universal binary format. Some tech companies have internal implementations of this sort of system. Then I see the shim DLL:
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/801e475c72b3573a91e0fb4c...
Even before this past week's XZ backdoor revelation, checking binaries into source control rather than building from source seems quite questionable. In fairness to the Bun developer's, they have a comment in their build.zig file acknowledging that this shim should be built more normally rather than being checked in.
Then I look into the source for it:
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/801e475c72b3573a91e0fb4c...
For no discernible reason, it is using a bunch of undocumented Windows APIs. The source cites this Zig issue as one reason for why they think it is OK to use undocumented APIs:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1840
I don't see any good reasons here cited for using undocumented, unstable interfaces. For Zig's part, there seems to be some poorly-explained interest in linking against "lower level" libraries without any motivating use case (just some hand waving about security and drivers, neither of which makes much sense. Onecore.lib is a thing if you wanted a documented way of linking an executable that run on a diverse set of Windows form factors. And compiling drivers may as well be treated as a seperate target, since function names are different). For Bun, I assume they are trying to have low binary size. But targeting NTDLL vs. Kernel32 should not make a big difference, especially when the shim is just doing basic file IO. For an example of making small executable with standard API, you can make hello world 4kb using MSVC just by using /NODEFAULTLIB and /ENTRY:main with link.exe and this program :
#includentdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()
There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.
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Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/5cd7fef17faa2a40c8da23f0...
Generally speaking, it’s as mentioned just a convention. A zig library might not allow its users to pass allocators for example.
In C++, stl containers can take an allocator as a template parameter. Recent C++ versions also provide several polymorphic allocators in the stdlib. You can also override the global allocator or a specific class’ allocator (override placement new).
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Nanos – A Unikernel
We need to remove that. We did have a channel on freenode a while back but got rid of it.
Outside of gh discussions there is also https://forums.nanovms.com/. We made a decision a while ago to follow Zig's lead here and have no 'official' community space (https://github.com/ziglang/zig?tab=readme-ov-file#community) instead letting people form their own spaces.
Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]
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MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers
ESP32 and STM32 support is very welcome!
I have been following https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5467 for a while and progress seemed to have slowed significantly
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