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Top 23 Zig Open-Source Projects

  • bun

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

    • Project mention: React Server Components Example with Next.js | dev.to | 2024-04-16

    At Node Conference 2023, Jarred Sumner (creator of Bun) showed a demo of server components in Bun, so there is at least partial support in that ecosystem. The Bun repo provides bun-plugin-server-components as the official plugin for server components. And while I haven’t looked at it in-depth, Marz claims to be a “React Server Components Framework for Bun”.

  • zig

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

    • Project mention: How to Write a PHP Extension with Zig? | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).

  • 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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  • ziglings

    Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

    • Project mention: Roadmap to master zig | /r/Zig | 2023-10-08

    Master syntax - language possibilities, so that you can read code. Ziglings (or github) does great job teaching it!

  • extism

    The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps.

    • Project mention: Extism – make all software programmable. Extend from within | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-08

  • river

    [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)

    • Project mention: Switching to River from Sway and a few questions | /r/riverwm | 2023-06-06

    More info on the wiki https://github.com/riverwm/river/wiki

  • mach

    zig game engine & graphics toolkit

    • Project mention: Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-18

    Myself and many others are betting on Zig in major ways, I truly think it has a bright future ahead.

    In spare time, myself and a few others are working on a game engine in Zig[0], and the Zig core team has been very receptive to addressing issues our project faces and supporting us.

    Others are working on pixel art editors[1], open source 2D RPG games[2], there's a group of independent folks working on a 3D massive immersive sim game[3], a group working on making Zig an amazing language for micro-controllers[4], etc.

    Please consider donating $5-10 a month to the ZSF! They are a great group of people, and it has so many knock-on effects for others in the FOSS community. :)

    [0] https://machengine.org/

    [1] https://github.com/foxnne/pixi

    [2] https://github.com/foxnne/aftersun

    [3] https://github.com/Srekel/tides-of-revival

    [4] https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup

  • zls

    A Zig language server supporting Zig developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

    • Project mention: Have questions/requests/issues related to the Zig Language Server? | /r/Zig | 2023-05-06

    There is no official documentation but the standard library provides definitions for the exchange format and an incomplete set of function for exchanging messages in Client.zig and Server.zig. You can find examples of the zig compile server in action in my PR for ZLS and a showcase of hot-code-swapping by kubkon. The code that implements the ZCS in the zig codebase can be found here.

  • WorkOS

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  • zig-gamedev

    Main monorepo for @zig-gamedev libs and example applications

  • zap

    blazingly fast backends in zig (by zigzap)

    • Project mention: Zap – Fast backends in Zig | /r/patient_hackernews | 2023-06-14

  • capy

    💻Build one codebase and get native UI on Windows, Linux and Web

  • cargo-zigbuild

    Compile Cargo project with zig as linker

    • Project mention: Show HN: macOS-cross-compiler – Compile binaries for macOS on Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-17

    https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild

    I’m curious what the blockers are for rustc to cross-compile like zig does natively.

  • awesome-zig

  • buzz

    👨‍🚀 buzz, A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language (by buzz-language)

    • Project mention: Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-26

    FYI, for the interested, https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz/issues/209

    > You have to use the nightly build of zig.

    ie. `brew install zig && zig build` will not work.

  • wasm4

    Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.

    • Project mention: WASM Instructions | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-18

    Related:

    A fast Pascal (Delphi) WebAssembly interpreter:

    https://github.com/marat1961/wasm

    WASM-4:

    https://github.com/aduros/wasm4

    Curated list of awesome things regarding WebAssembly (wasm) ecosystem:

    https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm

    Also, it would be nice if there was a WASM (soft) CPU for QEMU, which (if it existed!) would go here:

    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/target

  • 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: libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

    io_uring support is obviously great & excellent, fulfills the "high performance" part well.

    i was not expecting "Wasm + WASI" support at all. that's very cool. implementation is wasi_poll.zig (https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev/blob/main/src/backend/wa...). not to be unkind, but this makes me wonder very much if WASI is already missing the mark, if polling is the solution offered.

    gotta say, this is some very understandable clean code. further enhancing my sense that i really ought be playing with zig.

  • microzig

    Unified abstraction layer and HAL for several microcontrollers

    • Project mention: MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-28

  • awesome-zig

    📜Zig Learning Guide & Project Lists (by C-BJ)

  • arocc

    A C compiler written in Zig.

    • Project mention: no more bit fiddling (and introducing bilge) | /r/rust | 2023-05-15

    Possible reference as it requires to use the compiler as part of language abi: https://github.com/Vexu/arocc/issues/178 Not sure, where a better thread with explanations of the flaws is.

  • zig-clap

    Simple command line argument parsing library

    • Project mention: After a day of programming in Zig | dev.to | 2024-01-01

    Zig and Rust both promote explicit error handling, however their mechanisms are different. Rust uses Result enums, while Zig uses a (global) error set type (though similar to an enum) and error propagation. Similarly, Rust uses the Option enum for optional types, while Zig uses a type modifier (?T). Both offer modern, syntactic sugar to handle those (call()? and if let Some(value) = optional {} in Rust, try call() and if (optional) |value| {} in Zig). Since Rust uses the standard library to implement error handling and options, users have the possibility to extend those systems which is quite powerful. However, I like the approach Zig takes in providing those things as language features. While their approach fits well into the C universe, I dislike that there is no pragmatic way to add more context to an error (but well, no allocations). Libraries like [clap](https://github.com/Hejsil/zig-clap) solve this by implementing a diagnostics mechanism.

  • zigmod

    📦 A package manager for the Zig programming language.

  • karmem

    Karmem is a fast binary serialization format, faster than Google Flatbuffers and optimized for TinyGo and WASM.

  • pixi

    Pixel art editor made with Zig. (by foxnne)

    • Project mention: Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-18

    Myself and many others are betting on Zig in major ways, I truly think it has a bright future ahead.

    In spare time, myself and a few others are working on a game engine in Zig[0], and the Zig core team has been very receptive to addressing issues our project faces and supporting us.

    Others are working on pixel art editors[1], open source 2D RPG games[2], there's a group of independent folks working on a 3D massive immersive sim game[3], a group working on making Zig an amazing language for micro-controllers[4], etc.

    Please consider donating $5-10 a month to the ZSF! They are a great group of people, and it has so many knock-on effects for others in the FOSS community. :)

    [0] https://machengine.org/

    [1] https://github.com/foxnne/pixi

    [2] https://github.com/foxnne/aftersun

    [3] https://github.com/Srekel/tides-of-revival

    [4] https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup

  • zigup

    Download and manage zig compilers.

    • Project mention: zigup: Download and manage zig compilers | /r/Zig | 2023-11-02

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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). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-17.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Zig projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 bun 70,251
2 zig 30,295
3 ziglings 4,085
4 extism 3,728
5 river 2,919
6 mach 2,759
7 zls 2,337
8 zig-gamedev 1,965
9 zap 1,774
10 capy 1,322
11 cargo-zigbuild 1,181
12 awesome-zig 1,094
13 buzz 1,067
14 wasm4 1,055
15 libxev 1,431
16 microzig 923
17 awesome-zig 846
18 arocc 753
19 zig-clap 741
20 zigmod 703
21 karmem 630
22 pixi 530
23 zigup 518

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