Andrew Kelley

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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
Andrew Kelley19h ago
Loris Cro ⚡20h ago

The next Systems Distributed has been announced. Next to it we'll also run a special one-off Zig Day Boston open to anybody!

https://systemsdistributed.com/
https://zig.day/special/0/

Systems Distributed '26

A conference to teach systems programming and thinking, and how to apply these ideas. All the way across the stack. From systems languages and compilers, to databases and distributed systems.

Show threadAndrew Kelley1d ago
gee, I wonder what these lyrics from 2025 are referring to
Andrew Kelley1d ago
Silverstein dropped a double album combo last year and they're both real good
Andrew Kelley3d ago
Playing with the new multi-threaded fuzzer in Zig. Look at it go!
Andrew Kelley3d ago

Release notes are up!

I wish it went without saying, but these notes are completely written by hand.

https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html

0.16.0 Release Notes ⚡ The Zig Programming Language

Andrew Kelley4d ago

Zig 0.16.0 is tagged. Release notes are just about completed and will be published in about 20 hours when the tarballs finish building.

As it turns out, it takes a while to build LLVM 27 times on one computer! That's how many different targets we provide compiler binaries for now - all cross compiled from one host.

Andrew Kelley6d ago

WARNING: Your yt-dlp version (2025.08.11) is older than 90 days!

still works tho! looks like el goog lost the battle 💪

Andrew Kelley6d ago
in my experience people who say "I used genai but only for editing" are lying through their teeth
Andrew KelleyApr 9
honestly I'd rather let it die. I hate this application with a burning passion
Andrew KelleyApr 8

Thanks to bypassing the C/C++ API for constructing LLVM modules and instead building .bc files directly in memory, Zig's LLVM backend now supports incremental compilation.

You'll still have to wait ages for LLVM to convert bitcode into object files, but at least you'll get instant type checking!

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-04-08

Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language