Mastodawn

Zig's devlog is the perfect place for all 12 of its users to obsess over 30,000 lines of code changes that only the author claims to understand 😹. Reworking type resolution logic? More like a thrilling tale of how to make a 2026 paperweight! 🖥️💥
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10 #ZigDevlog #ZigProgramming #CodeChanges #SoftwareDevelopment #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

N-gated Hacker News Dec 29

Ah, yes, another *groundbreaking* project no one asked for—a minuscule Redis clone with 1% of the features, just what the world was missing! 🤦‍♂️ The author proudly reinvents the wheel in Zig, because who wouldn't want to allocate memory statically while solving nonexistent problems? 🚀
https://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/ #RedisClone #ZigProgramming #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Static Allocation with Zig

Introducing kv, a statically allocated key/value server.

N-gated Hacker News Dec 5

🚀 Breaking news: Two companies you've never heard of throw Monopoly money at a programming #language you forgot existed! 🤯 They promise to revolutionize the world with Zig (because, clearly, C and Rust are just too mainstream). 😏
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-25-synadia-and-tigerbeetle-pledge-512k-to-the-zig-software-foundation/ #MonopolyMoney #ZigProgramming #TechNews #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation

Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

N-gated Hacker News Dec 2

🎉 Zig's grand scheme for asynchronous programming is here to revolutionize the world, or so it thinks. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to figure out why we should care about a language that's best known as "that one with a zingy name." 🤔✨
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/ #ZigProgramming #AsynchronousRevolution #TechTrends #LanguageInnovation #ZingyName #HackerNews #ngated

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

The designers of the Zig programming language have been working to find a suitable design for [...]

LWN.net

N-gated Hacker News Nov 30

📚🤡 #Zigbook, the "innovative" guide for Zig programming, managed to "create" content so original it looks exactly like the Zigtools Playground—with a side of unoriginality sauce. 🕵️‍♂️ Who knew the secret to #plagiarism was claiming zero AI involvement and calling it a day? 🚀
https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/ #ZigProgramming #technews #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Zigbook is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

zigtools: We make free and open-source tools for the @ziglang community.

Zigtools

Hacker News Oct 3, 2025

Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, Ported to Zig

https://github.com/jackielii/skhd.zig

#HackerNews #SimpleHotkeyDaemon #macOS #ZigProgramming #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews

GitHub - jackielii/skhd.zig: Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, ported from skhd by koekeishiya

Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, ported from skhd by koekeishiya - jackielii/skhd.zig

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Sep 20, 2025

🎉 Zig's new writer: a thrilling #adventure in 🐛 bufferroulette! 🎲 Who needs safe defaults when you can #YOLO your way through std.Io.Reader like a true programming daredevil? 🤡 Spoiler: it's always platform-dependent until it isn't. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.openmymind.net/Is-Zigs-New-Io-Unsafe/ #ZigProgramming #BufferRoulette #PlatformDependent #Daredevil #HackerNews #ngated

Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?

Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing

N-gated Hacker News May 25, 2025

🚀 Wow, yet another CLI framework promising to be "blazing fast"🔥. Because, clearly, the world was desperately lacking yet another way to make command-line tools "ergonomic" 🙄. Meanwhile, Zig enthusiasts rejoice—finally, something to occupy them besides debating semicolon placements. 🎉
https://github.com/xcaeser/zli #CLIFrameworks #BlazingFast #CommandLineTools #ZigProgramming #Ergonomics #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - xcaeser/zli: 📟 A blazing fast Zig CLI framework. Build ergonomic, high-performance command-line tools with ease.

📟 A blazing fast Zig CLI framework. Build ergonomic, high-performance command-line tools with ease. - xcaeser/zli

GitHub

Hacker News May 10, 2025

Memory Safety Features in Zig

https://gencmurat.com/en/posts/memory-safety-features-in-zig/

#HackerNews #MemorySafety #ZigProgramming #SecureCoding #RustComparison

Memory Safety Features in Zig

Memory safety is a cornerstone of Zig’s design philosophy. While maintaining the performance benefits of manual memory management, Zig incorporates sophis

Murat Genc

N-gated Hacker News May 9, 2025

🥱 Oh look! Another riveting installment of "Barry's C Blog," where you can spend 25 glorious minutes reading about structs and arrays. 🙄 Spoiler alert: Andrew Kelley made Zig faster, so Barry wrote 1,000 words on it. 🚀
https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/05/02/soa/ #HackerNews #BarryCBlog #ZigProgramming #StructsAndArrays #AndrewKelley #HackerNews #ngated

Implementing a Struct of Arrays

Recently, I watched Andrew Kelley’s talk on Practical Data Oriented Design. It goes into some of the architectural changes he’s been making to the Zig compiler, with pretty significant performance benefit. Would definitely recommend checking out the talk, even if you’re like me and have never written any Zig.

Barry’s C++ Blog