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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
• 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 (⭐131) - Binary serialization format and library.
• BarabasGitHub/LZig4 (⭐6) - LZ4 implementation.
• DutchGhost/ArrayVec (⭐17) - An array with a vector feeling.
• emekoi/deque.zig (⭐16) - A lock free chase-lev deque.
• kristoff-it/zig-cuckoofilter (⭐83) - Production-ready Cuckoo Filters for any C ABI compatible target.
• marijnfs/zigtimsort (⭐6) - TimSort implementation.
• Sahnvour/zig-containers (⭐13) - A container library.
• Srekel/zig-sparse-set (⭐66) - Sparse sets, supporting both SOA and AOS style.
• hexops/xorfilter (⭐260) - Xor Filters for checking if a key is part of a set.
• JakubSzark/zig-string (⭐386) - UTF-8 string data structure.
• karlseguin/cache.zig (⭐44) - Thread-safe, expiration-aware, LRU cache.

Allocators and memory

• fengb/zee_alloc (⭐83) - Tiny allocator primarily targeting WebAssembly.
• mdsteele/ziegfried (⭐24) - A general-purpose memory allocator.
• suirad/Seal (⭐6) - An allocator that wraps another allocator and detects if memory is leaked after usage.
• Hejsil/zig-gc (⭐38) - A super simple mark-and-sweep garbage collector.
• dbandstra/zig-hunk (⭐0) - Basic "Hunk" memory allocator, based on the hunk system from id Software's Quake engine.

Audio

• Hejsil/zig-midi (⭐30)
• hazeycode/zig-alsa (⭐1) - Bindings for ALSA (libasound).
• dantecatalfamo/sndio-zig (⭐1) - Bindings for sndio.
• orhun/linuxwave (⭐541) - Generate music from the entropy of Linux.
• dbandstra/zig-wav (⭐1) - Simple WAV file parser and writer.

Bootables

• AndreaOrru/zen (⭐450) - Experimental operating system.
• andrewrk/clashos (⭐219) - Multiplayer arcade game for bare metal Raspberry Pi 3 B+.
• andrewrk/HellOS (⭐275) - "hello world" x86 kernel example.
• chivay/vmt (⭐10) - Toy OS.
• DorianXGH/Lukarnel (⭐22) - A microkernel with Rust microservices.
• iguessthislldo/georgios (⭐48) - Hobby Operating System.
• jzck/kernel-zig (⭐429) - Hobby x86 kernel.
• markfirmware/zig-bare-metal-microbit (⭐35) - Bare metal microbit program.
• markfirmware/zig-bare-metal-raspberry-pi (⭐91) - Bare metal raspberry pi program.
• MasterQ32/RetrOS (⭐56) - A retro-style gaming console running on bare x86 metal.
• nrdmn/uefi-examples (⭐62) - UEFI examples.
• nrdmn/uefi-paint (⭐46) - UEFI-bootable touch paint app.
• rafaelbreno/zig-os (⭐37) - A simple OS following Philipp Oppermann's posts "Writing an OS in Rust".
• SamTebbs33/pluto (⭐574) - An x86 kernel.
• sjdh02/trOS (⭐49) - Tiny aarch64 baremetal OS thingy.
• tralamazza/embedded_zig (⭐75) - Minimal embedded ARM example (STM32F103 blue pill).
• yvt/zig-armv8m-test (⭐11) - Example app for Armv8-M + TrustZone.
• ZeeBoppityZagZiggity/ZBZZ.OS (⭐12) - An operating system built for RISCV.

Compilers and interpreters

• oven-sh/bun (⭐75k) - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one.
• Vexu/bog (⭐549) - Small, strongly typed, embeddable language.
• LoLa Programming Language - (GitHub (⭐194)) An embeddable programming language for game scripting.
• squeek502/zua (⭐175) - An implementation of Lua 5.1 for learning purposes.
• CurtisFenner/zsmol (⭐9) - The new Smol compiler and reference.
• dantecatalfamo/brainfuck-zig (⭐9) - Brainfuck interpreter.
• dantecatalfamo/mruby-zig (⭐33) - mruby bindings.
• dantecatalfamo/wren-zig (⭐26) - wren bindings.
• fulcrum-so/ziggy-pydust (⭐437) - Python bindings.
• fubark/cyber (⭐1.2k) - Fast and concurrent scripting.

Concurrency

• mitchellh/libxev (⭐2.2k) - Cross-platform event-loop.
• kprotty/zefi (⭐38) - Fiber library.
• rsepassi/zigcoro (⭐168) - coroutine-friendly, based on libxev.
• iacore/minicoro-zig - Bindings for minicoro - Stackful Stack-Switching Coroutine.

Database

• coilhq/tigerbeetle (⭐11k) - A distributed financial accounting database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
• kristoff-it/redis-cuckoofilter (⭐231) - Hashing-function agnostic Cuckoo filters for Redis.
• kristoff-it/zig-okredis (⭐216) - Zero-allocation Client for Redis 6+.
• leroycep/sqlite-zig (⭐63) - SQLite bindings.
• vrischmann/zig-cassandra (⭐8) - Client for Cassandra 2.1+.
• vrischmann/zig-sqlite (⭐390) - SQLite wrapper.
• karlseguin/zuckdb.zig (⭐96) - DuckDB wrapper.
• karlseguin/pg.zig (⭐259) - Native PostgreSQL client.

Editor plugins

• MarioAriasC/zig-support (⭐79) - Language support for JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, CLion and others)
• isaachier/ztags (⭐17) - Ctags implementation for Zig.
• Tetralux/sublime-zig (⭐3) - My own, more lightweight, syntax highlighting for Zig.
• ziglang/sublime-zig-language (⭐85) - Zig language support for Sublime Text.
• ziglang/vscode-zig (⭐561) - Zig language support for VSCode.
• ziglang/zig-mode (⭐174) - Zig mode for Emacs.
• ziglang/zig.vim (⭐480) - Vim configuration for Zig.
• zigtools/zls (⭐3.1k) - Zig LSP implementation + Zig Language Server.

Emulators

• fengb/fundude (⭐181) - Gameboy emulator for WASM.
• GrooveStomp/chip8-zig (⭐8) - CHIP-8 emulator.
• sourgrasses/ichigo - Virtual Boy emulator.
• floooh/kc85.zig (⭐53) - A KC85 emulator.
• Arwalk/ChipZ (⭐3) A simple Chip8 emulator (library and executable).

Game tools and libraries

• hexops/mach (⭐3.4k) - Game engine and graphics toolkit.
• michal-z/zig-gamedev (⭐2.3k) - DirectX 12 game development ecosystem.
• floooh/sokol-zig (⭐380) - Sokol (⭐7.2k) bindings.
• TM35-Metronome/metronome (⭐46) - A set of tools for modifying and randomizing Pokémon games.
• TM35-Metronome/tm35-nds (⭐10) - A library for working with Nintendo DS roms.
• user00e00/sudokuinzig - Simple and robust sudoku solver.
• wendigojaeger/ZigGBA (⭐360) - SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig.
• hazeycode/brucelib - Monorepo of modules for programming cross-platforms games, simulations, engines & editors.
• andy5995/zigdeck (⭐3) - A library that creates and shuffles a deck of cards from which you can draw.

Games

• Akuli/curses-minesweeper (⭐17) - Minesweeper game written in curses.
• andrewrk/tetris (⭐403) - A simple tetris clone.
• fabioarnold/snake-zig (⭐19) - A simple snake clone.
• Stenodyon/blink (⭐17) - A game about building logic with lasers.
• thejoshwolfe/legend-of-swarkland (⭐96) - Hack-n-slash roguelike inspired by NetHack.
• tiehuis/zstack (⭐5) - Line-race tetris mode.
• kooparse/zalgebra (⭐234) - Linear algebra library for games and real-time computer graphics.
• floooh/pacman.zig (⭐245) - A Pacman clone.
• dantecatalfamo/OpenCSE (⭐1) - Free implementation of the Can't Stop Express dice game.
• dbandstra/oxid (⭐4) - Arcade-style game where you fight waves of monsters in a fixed-screen maze.

GUI

• capy-ui/capy (⭐1.8k) - Cross-platform library for making true native GUIs.
• david-vanderson/gui (⭐447) - Immediate mode GUI for Zig.
• Aransentin/ZWL (⭐99) - Zig Windowing Library.
• prime31/zig-upaya (⭐132) - GUI toolkit.
• fubark/cosmic (⭐344) - GUI toolkit.
• batiati/IUPforZig (⭐116) - Zig idiomatic and type-checked bindings for IUP Portable User Interface Toolkit.
• andrewrk/zig-sdl - Self-contained SDL2 package for Zig.
• Snektron/vulkan-zig (⭐525) - Vulkan binding generator.
• Avokadoen/zig_vulkan (⭐51) - Toy renderer using Vulkan and GLFW.
• andrewrk/zig-vulkan-triangle (⭐117) - Simple triangle displayed using Vulkan, GLFW, and Zig.
• kassane/QML-zig (⭐91) - QML bindings.
• cshenton/learnopengl (⭐143) - Learn OpenGL tutorials ported to Zig.
• ifreund/river (⭐3.3k) - Dynamic wayland compositor that takes inspiration from dwm and bspwm.
• Nelarius/weekend-raytracer-zig (⭐92) - An implementation of the "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" book.
• SpexGuy/Zig-Gltf-Display (⭐31) - A program that displays glTF files using Vulkan.
• tiehuis/zig-raytrace (⭐16) - Simple raytracer.
• donpdonp/zootdeck (⭐41) - Fediverse GTK Desktop Reader.
• MasterQ32/ZigPaint (⭐11) - A simple paint application. Used to create an OpenGL loader/wrapper and a minimal UI system.
• olexij-christian/zgtk3 (⭐1) - GTK3 bindings.

Misc libraries

• natecraddock/ziglua (⭐289) - Bindings for the Lua C API.
• ryoppippi/zigcv (⭐103) - Bindings for OpenCV4.
• BraedonWooding/Lazy-Zig (⭐42) - Linq.
• DutchGhost/maybeuninit (⭐1) - MaybeUninit.
• emekoi/log.zig (⭐24) - A thread-safe logging library.
• kprotty/zap (⭐451) - A collection of libraries which provide interfaces over the system for writing high performance applications.
• vbrusca/ZigMatrixUtils (⭐2) - Matrix manipulation and utility library.
• mlarouche/zigimg (⭐461) - Library for reading and writing different image formats.
• bfactory-ai/zignal (⭐71) - Image processing library inspired by dlib.
• dbandstra/zig-pcx (⭐0) - PCX image format decoder and encoder.
• ziglibs/known-folders (⭐235) - Provides access to well-known folders across several operating systems.
• SasLuca/zig-nanoid (⭐27) - Battle-tested, tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator. Now available in pure Zig.
• kassane/libvlc-zig (⭐18) - Bindings for libVLC media framework.
• karlseguin/log.zig (⭐101) - Structured logging library.
• dantecatalfamo/9p-zig (⭐4) - 9P2000 client/server library.
• karlseguin/singleflight.zig (⭐3) - Duplicate function call suppression.
• kassane/lean4-zig (⭐8) - Bindings for Lean 4 (theorem prover).
• attron/astroz (⭐16) - Astronomical and Spacecraft Toolkit.

Network

• MasterQ32/zig-network (⭐488) - Small network abstraction layer around TCP & UDP.
• dantecatalfamo/zig-dns (⭐58) - Experimental DNS library implemented in zig.
• euantorano/ip.zig (⭐14) - Library for working with IP Addresses.
• lun-4/zigdig (⭐34) - Naive DNS client library.
• marler8997/netpunch (⭐17) - Outbound proxy protocol.
• remeh/statsd-zig (⭐4) - Basic DogStatsD UDP server.

HTTP

• Luukdegram/apple_pie (⭐163) - HTTP 1.0/1.1 Server implementation.
• truemedian/zfetch (⭐60) - HTTP(S) client based on iguanaTLS.
• ducdetronquito/requestz (⭐116) - HTTP client based on h11.
• ducdetronquito/h11 (⭐102) - I/O-free HTTP/1.1 implementation inspired by hyper/h11.
• lun-4/ziget (⭐20) - Simple wget without libc.
• Vexu/routez (⭐246) - HTTP server.
• frmdstryr/zhp (⭐354) - Featureful HTTP server.
• axgdev/telegram_echobot_zig (⭐5) - Telegram echo bot.
• karlseguin/http.zig (⭐618) - HTTP/1.1 server.
• zigzap/zap (⭐2.4k) - blazingly fast, robust HTTP server.

Messaging

• skunkwerks/zamqp (⭐4) - AMQP client, based on rabbitmq-c.
• nine-lives-later/zzmq (⭐26) - ZeroMQ library, based on CZMQ.

Web

• andrewrk/lua-in-the-browser (⭐32) - Using Zig to build Lua for WebAssembly.
• karlseguin/websocket.zig (⭐313) - A WebSocket implementation.
• kivikakk/htmlentities.zig (⭐12) - HTML5 entity data.
• meheleventyone/zig-wasm-test (⭐55) - A minimal WebAssembly example using Zig's build system.
• shritesh/zig-wasm-dom (⭐146) - Zig + WebAssembly + JS + DOM.
• shritesh/zigfmt-web (⭐43) - Zig fmt on the web.
• zigwasm/wasm-zig (⭐27) - Common WASM runtime binding to C API.
• zigwasm/wasmer-zig (⭐53) - Bindings for the Wasmer WebAssembly runtime.
• zigwasm/wasmtime-zig (⭐83) - Bindings of Wasmtime.
• batiati/mustache-zig (⭐123) - Mustache implementation.
• floscodes/zerve (⭐49) - Simple framework for writing web services and web apps.
• zon-dev/zinc (⭐37) - Zinc is a framework focusing on high performance, usability, security, and extensibility.
• by-nir/aws-lambda-zig (⭐3) - Super-fast AWS Lambda runtime for Zig.

System tools

• pbui-project/pbui-main (⭐91) - BSD/Linux core utilities written in Zig.
• hspak/brightnessztl (⭐8) - A CLI to control device backlight.
• thejoshwolfe/hexdump-zip (⭐8) - Produce an annotated hexdump of a zipfile.
• kubkon/zacho (⭐37) - Zig's Mach-O parser.
• weskoerber/mac_address (⭐2) - A cross-platform library to retrieve the MAC address from your network interfaces without libc.

Zig development tools

• marler8997/zigup (⭐801) - Download and manage zig compilers.
• korandoru/setup-zig (⭐19) - Set up a specific version of Zig environment on GitHub Actions.
• weskoerber/zvm (⭐4) - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active Zig versions.
• vezel-dev/zig-sdk (⭐77) - MSBuild SDK for building Zig, C, and C++ projects using the Zig compiler.
• aherrmann/rules_zig (⭐44) - Bazel build rules for Zig.

Package managers

• zigtools/zpm (⭐91) - Unofficial Zig package manager.
• mattnite/gyro (⭐574) - Package manager with an index, build runner, and build dependencies.
• nektro/zigmod (⭐781) - Zig package manager.
• cheetah/asdf-zig (⭐29) - Zig plugin for the ASDF package manager.
• mattnite/ezpkg (⭐24) - Zig Package Manager Expansion Pack.
• nix-community/zon2nix (⭐77) - Convert the dependencies in build.zig.zon to a Nix expression.

Parser

• darithorn/zig-toml (⭐107) - A TOML parser.
• Himujjal/zig-json5 (⭐23) - JSON5 parser resembling the std.json APIs.
• chwayne/rem (⭐108) - An HTML parsing library.
• goto-bus-stop/ziguid (⭐7) - GUID parsing/stringifying.
• 00JCIV00/cova (⭐111) - Commands, Options, Values, Arguments. A simple yet robust cross-platform command line argument parsing library.
• Hejsil/zig-clap (⭐991) - Simple command line argument parsing library.
• sam701/zig-cli (⭐214) - Package for building command line apps.
• kivikakk/libpcre.zig (⭐26) - Bindings to libpcre for Perl-compatible regular expressions.
• kivikakk/koino (⭐127) - CommonMark/GitHub Flavored Markdown parser and HTML renderer.
• kubkon/zig-yaml (⭐152) - YAML parser.
• sreehax/zig-ini (⭐6) - .ini parser.
• Nulo/ini-parser - .ini parser.
• tiehuis/zig-regex (⭐205) - A regex implementation.
• tiehuis/zig-ryu (⭐16) - Port of ryu (⭐1.2k).
• Vexu/zuri (⭐46) - URI parser.
• vi/zigmkv (⭐12) - Matroska/webm (mkv) parser.
• winksaville/zig-parse-args (⭐0) - Parse command line arguments.
• winksaville/zig-parse-number (⭐0) - Implement ParseNumber which can parse any TypeId.Int or TypeId.Float.
• gernest/base32 (⭐11) - Base32 encoding/decoding.
• caolan/zig-netstring - Netstring parser.
• Arwalk/zig-protobuf (⭐236) - Implementation of Protocol Buffers v3 leveraging Zig's comptime.
• iddev5/inon (⭐10) - Data configuration file format.
• naneros/ztoml - TOMLv1.0.0 parser and convert TOML to JSON.
• InKryption/comath (⭐56) - Calculate math expressions in comptime.
• weskoerber/kewpie (⭐2) - A simple query string parser.

Learning resources

• belse-de/zig-tut (⭐18) - A collection of small projects and tutorials to learn Zig.
• Sobeston/ziglearn (⭐710) - Zig learning resources.
• zighelp/zighelp (⭐38) - 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 (⭐81) - Simple Directmedia Layer.
• andrewrk/libz (⭐14) - Zlib data compression.
• andrewrk/ffmpeg (⭐185) - library only.
• andrewrk/libgroove (⭐291) - streaming audio processing library.
• andrewrk/libsoundio (⭐2k) - library for real-time audio input and output.
• kassane/openssl-zig (⭐12) - crypto, providers & ssl libraries only.
• kassane/wolfssl (⭐5) - wolfssl library.
• kassane/libbpf (⭐2) - BPF CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere).
• kassane/winpthreads (⭐12) - PThread library for MinGW.
• raysan5/raylib (⭐23k) - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
• jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter (⭐1.5k) - Creating Excel XLSX files.
• alexrp/libffi (⭐7) - libffi with a Zig build script.

C++

• andrewrk/libchromaprint (⭐6) - library for generating audio fingerprints used by AcoustID.
• kassane/asio (⭐7) - (non-boost) Networking I/O library (w/ event-loop, C++14/17/20).
• kassane/fmt (⭐0) - Modern formatting library.
• kassane/context (⭐0) - (boost-context) fiber library (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/fiber (⭐1) - (boost-fiber) userland threads (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/beast (⭐1) - (boost-beast) HTTP and WebSocket (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/hana (⭐1) - (boost-hana) Meta-programming library (header-only, C++14/17/20).
• kassane/intrusive (⭐0) - (boost-intrusive) intrusive containers (header-only, C++03/11/14).
• kassane/unordered (⭐0) - (boost-unordered) hashmap and set concurrency containers (C++03/11/14).
• kassane/catch2 (⭐0) - Unit testing library (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/outcome (⭐1) - (non-boost) Error handler (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/json (⭐1) - jsoncpp ported to Zig packaging.
• kassane/Standalone-Server (⭐3) - Asio standalone C++ HTTP/S Server.
• kassane/range-v3 (⭐0) - modern range library (C++14/17/20).
• kassane/libzmq (⭐2) - ZeroMQ core engine in C++ library.
• kassane/libsigcplusplus (⭐0) - Typesafe callback system for standard C++.
• ggerganov/llama.cpp (⭐69k) - 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 (⭐7) - Geteltorito re-write in Zig.
• momumi/x86-zig (⭐27) - Library for assembling x86.
• nrdmn/ilo_license_key (⭐16) - ILO license key library.
• vegecode/svd2zig (⭐27) - Convert System View Description (svd) files to Zig headers for baremetal development.
• mqttiotstuff/iotmonitor (⭐21) - MQTT IotMonitor tools, save time to monitor mqtt agents or devices.
• ve-nt/outfieldr - TLDR (⭐52k) client.
• kubkon/zig-ios-example (⭐129) - Minimal build.zig for targeting iOS.
• ynuwenhof/zigbraten (⭐1) - Proof of concept internal cheat for Cube 2: Sauerbraten.
• vbrusca/ZigSdlGameTemplate (⭐4) - SDL game project template.