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Anna Liberty reflects on four months back in Zig after Rust: projects like the smallnet library snurl, Zig Day, what she likes (anyzig, the new IO and allocator interfaces, comptime, the build system, dependency culture, error handling, incremental compilation) and what she wants improved, including stability, lifetime support, documentation and bootstrapping.
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The glorious @xkcdRandom Zig builtin
Adolfo Ochagavía forks the Zig compiler to add a tongue-in-cheek @xkcdRandom builtin that always returns 4, using the joke as a hands-on tour of how Zig builtins are declared, analyzed, and lowered inside the compiler.
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I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times
Lalit Maganti built buildprof, an open-source Linux tool that records every process spawned during a build and renders them on a shared timeline. He used it to investigate the 5x speed difference between Bun's Zig and Rust builds, tracing the bottleneck to Full LTO in the linker and a downloaded WebKit library that amplified it.
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A Search-and-Inference Database from Scratch in Pure Zig
Antfly recounts rewriting their Go retrieval engine in Zig while still early: first-principles design, caring about the model over embeddings, TigerBeetle-style simulation testing, and what they learned.
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