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Building a Gzip Compression Library in Zig 0.15: A Deep Dive into Comprezz
Introduction When Zig 0.15 removed compression support from its standard library, it...
Rust vs. Zig: The New Programming Language Battle for Performance
Introduction: The Rise of a New Challenger For years, Rust has long been the go-to language for...
Write Your Own FIFO Queue: An Essential Data Structure for Modern Systems
Learn how to implement a queue data structure from scratch using circular buffers. Understand FIFO principles, constant-time operations, and why this pattern powers everything from audio processing to network packet handling.
Ziglang is so cool: Why I'm Going All-In on Zig
This is a story about leaving the comfort of web development to tackle hard problems, find a new philosophy, and build software that lasts.
Elba Lang
Elba — A modern, statically-typed programming language with multiple compilation...
I'm building a Redis Clone in Zig: A Deep Dive into Pub/Sub, and Memory Allocation
It's been a while since I started a project called Zedis (Redis written in Zig). It's been a great...
Building a Redis Clone in Zig—Part 1
I’ve been writing web applications for years, mostly high-level stuff with frameworks that abstract...
Auto reload WASM with zig+lume
I’ve been taking some time off to rest and recover from health issues that made it hard to focus. To...
On-the-fly zstandard (de)compression in Elixir
Notes on building Elixir bindings for the zstandard C library. We use Zig/Zigler to wrap the...
Why Zig + Qt Feels Like Doing the Impossible Right
Intro It's no secret that I love Zig, and it's also no secret that my favorite GUI...
Cross-Compile Anything to Anywhere with One GitHub Action Why I Ended Up Building This
I write a fair amount of C and C++, and over time cross-compiling turned into the part of the job I...
Building a Redis Clone in Zig—Part 2
In the previous article, we covered the basics of building a Redis clone in Zig, focusing on the data...
Building a Redis Clone in Zig—Part 3
In this series we are going through the hard parts; if you want to see the whole implementation,...
Async/Await is finally back in Zig
I’ve been following the Zig programming language with keen interest over the past several months....
Accidentally Made a Zig dotenv Parser
Recently I've made a Zig based CLI argument parser called argh I've even written myself a roadmap I'd...
Zig 0.15.1 I/O Overhaul: Understanding the New Reader/Writer Interfaces
Introduction Prior to Zig version 0.15.1, writing to standard output was more or less...
A Quick Overview Of Zig
Zig, a modern, high-performance system programming language created by Andrew Kelly in 2016 as a...
How to Use Libuv In Your Zig Project
This guide will show you how to use libuv from your Zig project.
Building Pong in Zig with Raylib – Part 1: Setup, Paddles, and Ball
Before continuing development on Triangle - my larger, arcade ARPG, factory game, I wanted to take a...
Calling Javascript from Zig through WebAssembly
The next step for shine is to build a bridge between zig and javascript . I am...
Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools
Introduction So when it comes to memory management there are two terms you really need to...
Zig Wants to Replace Go and Rust. Does It Have What It Takes?
In the current software development landscape, Go and Rust, despite being relatively young, have...
Understanding Error Unions in Zig: Safe and Explicit Error Handling
Zig replaces exceptions with something better: error unions. They give you fine-grained, type-safe...
Demystifying Structs in Zig: Composition, Defaults, and Packed Layouts
Zig’s struct type is more than just a container for fields. It supports powerful patterns like...
Is Manual Memory Management Really Necessary? A Look at Zig and Rust
A detailed comparison of memory management approaches in Zig and Rust, exploring when manual memory management is necessary and how both languages handle safety and performance considerations.
Running sklearn models in Zig
Introduction Scikit-learn models became the industry standard for creating machine...
Compiling Programs With Zig's Comptime Magic
Introduction In this article, we'll be exploring a curious way to use Zig's build system...
A Single-File Zig Client for llama.cpp's OpenAI-Compatible API Server
This post walks through creating a minimal, dependency-free, pure Zig 0.14.1 client for llama.cpp’s...
I Built Zigistry, a Package Registry for Zig with No Money (except $3 domain name)- Here's How
Zigistry's link Please ⭐️ to support this project A place where you can find all the...
'How to boost Python program performance with Zig'
Two years ago Zig was "the new modern alternative to C." Now we've moved on to the "tutorials" phase...