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Zig NewsLanguages0.17.0 Released This release features 5 months of work : changes from 206 different contributors , spread among 925 commits .

10.02
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Zig NewsLanguagesWelcoming Our Newest Core Team Members Among the many talented people who contribute to Zig, the following people have accepted invitations to join the core team:

06.16
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Zig NewsLanguagesCore Team Member Spotlight: Alex Rønne Petersen Alex joined the team in October of 2024. Hard to believe it’s already been a year and a half since then!

04.18
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Zig NewsLanguages0.16.0 Released This release features 8 months of work : changes from 244 different contributors , spread among 1183 commits .

04.14
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Zig NewsLanguagesMigrating from GitHub to Codeberg Ever since git init ten years ago , Zig has been hosted on GitHub. Unfortunately, when it sold out to Microsoft , the clock started ticking . “Please just give me 5 years before everything goes to shit,” I thought to

2025.11.26
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Zig NewsLanguagesThe First ziglang.org Outage On September 1st a community member notified us ( #529 ) that ziglang.org was having issues (slow loading pages, HTTP 500 replies).

2025.09.08
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Zig NewsLanguages2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributor

2025.09.02
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Zig NewsLanguagesCommunity Mirrors: A Better Way To Download Zig With Zig being in active development, it’s pretty common to need to download new Zig compiler releases, particularly if you track the “master” pre-releases instead of tagged releases. There are also some situations

2025.06.30
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Zig NewsLanguagesGood News! 0.14.0 Delayed To keep it brief - planned 0.14.0 release date is moved to Monday, March 3rd , three days after HYTRADBOI .

2025.02.14
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Zig NewsLanguagesDonor Bounty: Add Support for '-x' In Zig's macOS Linker As part of our Donor Bounty Program , a new bounty proposed by Zeke Gabrielse (founder of https://keygen.sh ) has been confirmed.

2025.02.13
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Zig NewsLanguagesWhat to Expect from Release Month We’ve been relatively quiet over here at the Zig Software Foundation for a few months now and so it’s about time to give y’all an update.

2025.01.17
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Zig NewsLanguages300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto The donation is structured in two 150k USD payments, one due right away, the second one year from now.

2024.10.01
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Zig NewsLanguagesThe Zig Website Has Been Re-engineered As some have already noticed , when we announced in the last post that we moved ziglang.org off the cloud, we also moved the website from Hugo to Zine , a static site generator written in Zig by yours truly (with the hel

2024.09.30
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Zig NewsLanguagesMigrating from AWS to Self-Hosting You often hear this story in tech news: some project got increasingly popular, so they had to migrate from their simple, one-computer setup to some kind of autoscaling cloud hosting solution to meet demands.

2024.09.12
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Zig NewsLanguagesIntroducing Carmen the Allocgator Over here at the Zig Software Foundation, we’re following the latest trends. We know what’s important to you all - watching the line go up .

2024.06.10
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Zig NewsLanguagesMatthew Lugg Joins the Core Zig Team This announcement is long overdue. Matthew started contributing in the beginning of 2023. He did not waste any time getting his hands dirty - immediately tackling core issues facing the compiler’s frontend, including t

2024.02.12
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Zig NewsLanguagesDonor Bounty: Labeled Switch Continue Syntax As part of our Donor Bounty Program , a new bounty has been confirmed with an anonymous donor.

2024.01.23
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Zig NewsLanguagesDonor Bounties: A New Kind of Feature Bounty We have previously written about how bounties can be damaging to Open Source projects as, even when the subject of the bounty is in accordance with the wishes of the project maintainers, it still fosters competition at t

2024.01.23
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Zig NewsLanguages2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributor

2024.01.16
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Zig NewsLanguagesBounties Damage Open Source Projects This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )

2023.09.14
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Zig NewsLanguagesJacob Young Joins the Core Zig Team I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Jacob Young (screenname: jacobly0 ).

2023.07.31
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Zig NewsLanguagesThe Upcoming Release Postponed Two More Weeks and Lacks Async Functions I’ve been saying the upcoming 0.11.0 release of Zig would have async/await/suspend/resume for 9 months now. You can probably find 10 different places where I promised in writing or in front of a camera that this next r

2023.07.19
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Zig NewsLanguagesGoodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig It’s funny - I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the response was confusion about why any of this would be necessary or even r

2022.12.07
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Zig NewsLanguagesUpdated Public Financial Information The Zig Software Foundation keeps public record of its financial status. In the past few months we accumulated some “bureaucratic” debt, as we failed to keep the public record up to date. We have recently gained a ne

2022.01.31