Awesome Zig

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

Contents

• Algorithms and data structures
• Allocators and memory
• Audio
• Bootables
• Compilers and interpreters
• Concurrency
• Database
• Editor plugins
• Emulators
• Game tools and libraries
• Games
• GUI
• Linters
• Misc libraries
• Network
  • HTTP
• Web
• System tools
• Zig development tools
  • Package managers
• Parser
• Learning resources
• C/C++ libraries packaged for Zig
• Other

Algorithms and data structures

• ziglibs/s2s - Binary serialization format and library.
• BarabasGitHub/LZig4 - LZ4 implementation.
• DutchGhost/ArrayVec - An array with a vector feeling.
• emekoi/deque.zig - A lock free chase-lev deque.
• kristoff-it/zig-cuckoofilter - Production-ready Cuckoo Filters for any C ABI compatible target.
• marijnfs/zigtimsort - TimSort implementation.
• Sahnvour/zig-containers - A container library.
• Srekel/zig-sparse-set - Sparse sets, supporting both SOA and AOS style.
• hexops/xorfilter - Xor Filters for checking if a key is part of a set.
• JakubSzark/zig-string - UTF-8 string data structure.
• karlseguin/cache.zig - Thread-safe, expiration-aware, LRU cache.

Allocators and memory

• fengb/zee_alloc - Tiny allocator primarily targeting WebAssembly.
• mdsteele/ziegfried - A general-purpose memory allocator.
• suirad/Seal - An allocator that wraps another allocator and detects if memory is leaked after usage.
• Hejsil/zig-gc - A super simple mark-and-sweep garbage collector.
• dbandstra/zig-hunk - Basic “Hunk” memory allocator, based on the hunk system from id Software’s Quake engine.

Audio

• Hejsil/zig-midi
• hazeycode/zig-alsa - Bindings for ALSA (libasound).
• dantecatalfamo/sndio-zig - Bindings for sndio.
• orhun/linuxwave - Generate music from the entropy of Linux.
• dbandstra/zig-wav - Simple WAV file parser and writer.

Bootables

• AndreaOrru/zen - Experimental operating system.
• andrewrk/clashos - Multiplayer arcade game for bare metal Raspberry Pi 3 B+.
• andrewrk/HellOS - “hello world” x86 kernel example.
• chivay/vmt - Toy OS.
• DorianXGH/Lukarnel - A microkernel with Rust microservices.
• iguessthislldo/georgios - Hobby Operating System.
• jzck/kernel-zig - Hobby x86 kernel.
• markfirmware/zig-bare-metal-microbit - Bare metal microbit program.
• markfirmware/zig-bare-metal-raspberry-pi - Bare metal raspberry pi program.
• MasterQ32/RetrOS - A retro-style gaming console running on bare x86 metal.
• nrdmn/uefi-examples - UEFI examples.
• nrdmn/uefi-paint - UEFI-bootable touch paint app.
• rafaelbreno/zig-os - A simple OS following Philipp Oppermann’s posts “Writing an OS in Rust”.
• SamTebbs33/pluto - An x86 kernel.
• sjdh02/trOS - Tiny aarch64 baremetal OS thingy.
• tralamazza/embedded_zig - Minimal embedded ARM example (STM32F103 blue pill).
• yvt/zig-armv8m-test - Example app for Armv8-M + TrustZone.
• ZeeBoppityZagZiggity/ZBZZ.OS - An operating system built for RISCV.

Compilers and interpreters

• oven-sh/bun - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.
• Vexu/bog - Small, strongly typed, embeddable language.
• LoLa Programming Language - (GitHub) An embeddable programming language for game scripting.
• squeek502/zua - An implementation of Lua 5.1 for learning purposes.
• CurtisFenner/zsmol - The new Smol compiler and reference.
• dantecatalfamo/brainfuck-zig - Brainfuck interpreter.
• dantecatalfamo/mruby-zig - mruby bindings.
• dantecatalfamo/wren-zig - wren bindings.
• fulcrum-so/ziggy-pydust - Python bindings.
• fubark/cyber - Fast and concurrent scripting.

Concurrency

• mitchellh/libxev - Cross-platform event-loop.
• kprotty/zefi - Fiber library.
• rsepassi/zigcoro - coroutine-friendly, based on libxev.
• iacore/minicoro-zig - Bindings for minicoro - Stackful Stack-Switching Coroutine.
• floscodes/coroutinez - Small runtime for running tasks using coroutines.

Database

• coilhq/tigerbeetle - A distributed financial accounting database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
• kristoff-it/redis-cuckoofilter - Hashing-function agnostic Cuckoo filters for Redis.
• kristoff-it/zig-okredis - Zero-allocation Client for Redis 6+.
• leroycep/sqlite-zig - SQLite bindings.
• vrischmann/zig-cassandra - Client for Cassandra 2.1+.
• vrischmann/zig-sqlite - SQLite wrapper.
• karlseguin/zuckdb.zig - DuckDB wrapper.
• karlseguin/pg.zig - Native PostgreSQL client.

Editor plugins

• MarioAriasC/zig-support - Language support for JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, CLion and others)
• isaachier/ztags - Ctags implementation for Zig.
• Tetralux/sublime-zig - My own, more lightweight, syntax highlighting for Zig.
• ziglang/sublime-zig-language - Zig language support for Sublime Text.
• ziglang/vscode-zig - Zig language support for VSCode.
• ziglang/zig-mode - Zig mode for Emacs.
• ziglang/zig.vim - Vim configuration for Zig.
• zigtools/zls - Zig LSP implementation + Zig Language Server.

Emulators

• fengb/fundude - Gameboy emulator for WASM.
• GrooveStomp/chip8-zig - CHIP-8 emulator.
• sourgrasses/ichigo - Virtual Boy emulator.
• floooh/kc85.zig - A KC85 emulator.
• Arwalk/ChipZ A simple Chip8 emulator (library and executable).

Game tools and libraries

• hexops/mach - Game engine and graphics toolkit.
• michal-z/zig-gamedev - DirectX 12 game development ecosystem.
• floooh/sokol-zig - Sokol bindings.
• TM35-Metronome/metronome - A set of tools for modifying and randomizing Pokémon games.
• TM35-Metronome/tm35-nds - A library for working with Nintendo DS roms.
• user00e00/sudokuinzig - Simple and robust sudoku solver.
• wendigojaeger/ZigGBA - SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig.
• hazeycode/brucelib - Monorepo of modules for programming cross-platforms games, simulations, engines & editors.
• andy5995/zigdeck - A library that creates and shuffles a deck of cards from which you can draw.

Games

• Akuli/curses-minesweeper - Minesweeper game written in curses.
• andrewrk/tetris - A simple tetris clone.
• fabioarnold/snake-zig - A simple snake clone.
• Stenodyon/blink - A game about building logic with lasers.
• thejoshwolfe/legend-of-swarkland - Hack-n-slash roguelike inspired by NetHack.
• tiehuis/zstack - Line-race tetris mode.
• kooparse/zalgebra - Linear algebra library for games and real-time computer graphics.
• floooh/pacman.zig - A Pacman clone.
• dantecatalfamo/OpenCSE - Free implementation of the Can’t Stop Express dice game.
• dbandstra/oxid - Arcade-style game where you fight waves of monsters in a fixed-screen maze.
• six519/YieArKUNGFUZig - Yie Ar Kung-Fu clone with raylib.

GUI

• capy-ui/capy - Cross-platform library for making true native GUIs.
• david-vanderson/gui - Immediate mode GUI for Zig.
• Aransentin/ZWL - Zig Windowing Library.
• prime31/zig-upaya - GUI toolkit.
• fubark/cosmic - GUI toolkit.
• batiati/IUPforZig - Zig idiomatic and type-checked bindings for IUP Portable User Interface Toolkit.
• andrewrk/zig-sdl - Self-contained SDL2 package for Zig.
• Snektron/vulkan-zig - Vulkan binding generator.
• Avokadoen/zig_vulkan - Toy renderer using Vulkan and GLFW.
• andrewrk/zig-vulkan-triangle - Simple triangle displayed using Vulkan, GLFW, and Zig.
• kassane/QML-zig - QML bindings.
• cshenton/learnopengl - Learn OpenGL tutorials ported to Zig.
• ifreund/river - Dynamic wayland compositor that takes inspiration from dwm and bspwm.
• Nelarius/weekend-raytracer-zig - An implementation of the “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” book.
• SpexGuy/Zig-Gltf-Display - A program that displays glTF files using Vulkan.
• tiehuis/zig-raytrace - Simple raytracer.
• donpdonp/zootdeck - Fediverse GTK Desktop Reader.
• MasterQ32/ZigPaint - A simple paint application. Used to create an OpenGL loader/wrapper and a minimal UI system.
• olexij-christian/zgtk3 - GTK3 bindings.
• rcalixte/libqt6zig - Qt 6 bindings.

Linters

• KurtWagner/zlinter - Linter that integrates from source into your build.zig
• DonIsaac/zlint - Linter
• nektro/ziglint - Linting suite

Misc libraries

• natecraddock/ziglua - Bindings for the Lua C API.
• ryoppippi/zigcv - Bindings for OpenCV4.
• BraedonWooding/Lazy-Zig - Linq.
• DutchGhost/maybeuninit - MaybeUninit.
• emekoi/log.zig - A thread-safe logging library.
• kprotty/zap - A collection of libraries which provide interfaces over the system for writing high performance applications.
• vbrusca/ZigMatrixUtils - Matrix manipulation and utility library.
• mlarouche/zigimg - Library for reading and writing different image formats.
• bfactory-ai/zignal - Image processing library inspired by dlib.
• dbandstra/zig-pcx - PCX image format decoder and encoder.
• ziglibs/known-folders - Provides access to well-known folders across several operating systems.
• SasLuca/zig-nanoid - Battle-tested, tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator. Now available in pure Zig.
• kassane/libvlc-zig - Bindings for libVLC media framework.
• karlseguin/log.zig - Structured logging library.
• dantecatalfamo/9p-zig - 9P2000 client/server library.
• karlseguin/singleflight.zig - Duplicate function call suppression.
• kassane/lean4-zig - Bindings for Lean 4 (theorem prover).
• attron/astroz - Astronomical and Spacecraft Toolkit.
• pblischak/zprob - Module for Random Number Distributions.

Network

• MasterQ32/zig-network - Small network abstraction layer around TCP & UDP.
• dantecatalfamo/zig-dns - Experimental DNS library implemented in zig.
• euantorano/ip.zig - Library for working with IP Addresses.
• lun-4/zigdig - Naive DNS client library.
• marler8997/netpunch - Outbound proxy protocol.
• remeh/statsd-zig - Basic DogStatsD UDP server.

HTTP

• Luukdegram/apple_pie - HTTP 1.0/1.1 Server implementation.
• truemedian/zfetch - HTTP(S) client based on iguanaTLS.
• ducdetronquito/requestz - HTTP client based on h11.
• ducdetronquito/h11 - I/O-free HTTP/1.1 implementation inspired by hyper/h11.
• lun-4/ziget - Simple wget without libc.
• Vexu/routez - HTTP server.
• frmdstryr/zhp - Featureful HTTP server.
• axgdev/telegram_echobot_zig - Telegram echo bot.
• karlseguin/http.zig - HTTP/1.1 server.
• zigzap/zap - blazingly fast, robust HTTP server.

Messaging

• skunkwerks/zamqp - AMQP client, based on rabbitmq-c.
• nine-lives-later/zzmq - ZeroMQ library, based on CZMQ.

Web

• andrewrk/lua-in-the-browser - Using Zig to build Lua for WebAssembly.
• karlseguin/websocket.zig - A WebSocket implementation.
• kivikakk/htmlentities.zig - HTML5 entity data.
• meheleventyone/zig-wasm-test - A minimal WebAssembly example using Zig’s build system.
• shritesh/zig-wasm-dom - Zig + WebAssembly + JS + DOM.
• shritesh/zigfmt-web - Zig fmt on the web.
• zigwasm/wasm-zig - Common WASM runtime binding to C API.
• zigwasm/wasmer-zig - Bindings for the Wasmer WebAssembly runtime.
• zigwasm/wasmtime-zig - Bindings of Wasmtime.
• batiati/mustache-zig - Mustache implementation.
• floscodes/zerve - Simple framework for writing web services and web apps.
• zon-dev/zinc - Zinc is a framework focusing on high performance, usability, security, and extensibility.
• by-nir/aws-lambda-zig - Super-fast AWS Lambda runtime for Zig.

System tools

• pbui-project/pbui-main - BSD/Linux core utilities written in Zig.
• hspak/brightnessztl - A CLI to control device backlight.
• thejoshwolfe/hexdump-zip - Produce an annotated hexdump of a zipfile.
• kubkon/zacho - Zig’s Mach-O parser.
• weskoerber/mac_address - A cross-platform library to retrieve the MAC address from your network interfaces without libc.

Zig development tools

• marler8997/zigup - Download and manage zig compilers.
• korandoru/setup-zig - Set up a specific version of Zig environment on GitHub Actions.
• weskoerber/zvm - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active Zig versions.
• vezel-dev/zig-sdk - MSBuild SDK for building Zig, C, and C++ projects using the Zig compiler.
• aherrmann/rules_zig - Bazel build rules for Zig.

Package managers

• zigtools/zpm - Unofficial Zig package manager.
• mattnite/gyro - Package manager with an index, build runner, and build dependencies.
• nektro/zigmod - Zig package manager.
• cheetah/asdf-zig - Zig plugin for the ASDF package manager.
• mattnite/ezpkg - Zig Package Manager Expansion Pack.
• nix-community/zon2nix - Convert the dependencies in build.zig.zon to a Nix expression.

Parser

• darithorn/zig-toml - A TOML parser.
• Himujjal/zig-json5 - JSON5 parser resembling the std.json APIs.
• EzequielRamis/zimdjson - Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second. Zig port of simdjson with fundamental features.
• chwayne/rem - An HTML parsing library.
• goto-bus-stop/ziguid - GUID parsing/stringifying.
• 00JCIV00/cova - Commands, Options, Values, Arguments. A simple yet robust cross-platform command line argument parsing library.
• Hejsil/zig-clap - Simple command line argument parsing library.
• sam701/zig-cli - Package for building command line apps.
• kivikakk/libpcre.zig - Bindings to libpcre for Perl-compatible regular expressions.
• kivikakk/koino - CommonMark/GitHub Flavored Markdown parser and HTML renderer.
• kubkon/zig-yaml - YAML parser.
• loo-re/zini - Consistent .ini parser.
• sreehax/zig-ini - .ini parser.
• Nulo/ini-parser - .ini parser.
• tiehuis/zig-regex - A regex implementation.
• tiehuis/zig-ryu - Port of ryu.
• Vexu/zuri - URI parser.
• vi/zigmkv - Matroska/webm (mkv) parser.
• winksaville/zig-parse-args - Parse command line arguments.
• winksaville/zig-parse-number - Implement ParseNumber which can parse any TypeId.Int or TypeId.Float.
• gernest/base32 - Base32 encoding/decoding.
• caolan/zig-netstring - Netstring parser.
• Arwalk/zig-protobuf - Implementation of Protocol Buffers v3 leveraging Zig’s comptime.
• iddev5/inon - Data configuration file format.
• naneros/ztoml - TOMLv1.0.0 parser and convert TOML to JSON.
• InKryption/comath - Calculate math expressions in comptime.
• weskoerber/kewpie - A simple query string parser.

Learning resources

• belse-de/zig-tut - A collection of small projects and tutorials to learn Zig.
• Sobeston/ziglearn - Zig learning resources.
• zighelp/zighelp - Get up to speed with Zig quickly (ziglearn fork).
• ziglings/exercises - Learn Zig by fixing tiny example programs.

C/C++ libraries packaged for Zig

These C/C++ libraries were packaged to be used with the Zig build and packaging system (build.zig).

C

• andrewrk/SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer.
• andrewrk/libz - Zlib data compression.
• andrewrk/ffmpeg - library only.
• andrewrk/libgroove - streaming audio processing library.
• andrewrk/libsoundio - library for real-time audio input and output.
• kassane/openssl-zig - crypto, providers & ssl libraries only.
• kassane/wolfssl - wolfssl library.
• kassane/libbpf - BPF CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere).
• kassane/winpthreads - PThread library for MinGW.
• raysan5/raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
• jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter - Creating Excel XLSX files.
• alexrp/libffi - libffi with a Zig build script.

C++

• andrewrk/libchromaprint - library for generating audio fingerprints used by AcoustID.
• kassane/asio - (non-boost) Networking I/O library (w/ event-loop, C++14/17/20).
• kassane/fmt - Modern formatting library.
• kassane/context - (boost-context) fiber library (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/fiber - (boost-fiber) userland threads (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/beast - (boost-beast) HTTP and WebSocket (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/hana - (boost-hana) Meta-programming library (header-only, C++14/17/20).
• kassane/intrusive - (boost-intrusive) intrusive containers (header-only, C++03/11/14).
• kassane/unordered - (boost-unordered) hashmap and set concurrency containers (C++03/11/14).
• kassane/catch2 - Unit testing library (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/outcome - (non-boost) Error handler (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/json - jsoncpp ported to Zig packaging.
• kassane/Standalone-Server - Asio standalone C++ HTTP/S Server.
• kassane/range-v3 - modern range library (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/libzmq - ZeroMQ core engine in C++ library.
• kassane/libsigcplusplus - Typesafe callback system for standard C++.
• ggerganov/llama.cpp - Port of Facebook’s LLaMA model in C/C++.

Other

• All Your Codebase - Development status of Zig and its’ ecosystem.
• zig.pm - A community-maintained repository of Zig packages.
• hspak/geteltorito-zig - Geteltorito re-write in Zig.
• momumi/x86-zig - Library for assembling x86.
• nrdmn/ilo_license_key - ILO license key library.
• vegecode/svd2zig - Convert System View Description (svd) files to Zig headers for baremetal development.
• mqttiotstuff/iotmonitor - MQTT IotMonitor tools, save time to monitor mqtt agents or devices.
• ve-nt/outfieldr - TLDR client.
• kubkon/zig-ios-example - Minimal build.zig for targeting iOS.
• ynuwenhof/zigbraten - Proof of concept internal cheat for Cube 2: Sauerbraten.
• vbrusca/ZigSdlGameTemplate - SDL game project template.

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