How To Get Started With Zig 🖼️
Zig is a modern, low-level programming language that prioritizes performance, safety, and simplicity—perfect for systems programming and beyond. If you're looking for an alternative to C with powerful compile-time execution and manual memory management, Zig is worth exploring!
Official website: https://ziglang.org/
Books 📖
— Introduction to Zig a comprehensive introduction to Zig programming language, I would suggest starting your journey with this wonderful book.
— Learning Zig by Karl Seguin, an introduction to Zig programming language without too much hassle.
— Programming with Zig: From Basics to Mastery (still in progress)
Courses 🎓
— Zig in Depth YouTube series about Zig programming
Practices 🛠️
— Ziglings number of exercises to practice Zig programming
People 🫂
— Andrew Kelley, the founder of Zig lang
— Karl Seguin and his blog
— Murat Genc
— Zig SHOWTIME
Libraries 🏛️
— Zigistry like PyPI but for Zig
— Awesome Zig
Websites 🕸️
— Zig News
Zig is a modern, low-level programming language that prioritizes performance, safety, and simplicity—perfect for systems programming and beyond. If you're looking for an alternative to C with powerful compile-time execution and manual memory management, Zig is worth exploring!
Official website: https://ziglang.org/
Books 📖
— Introduction to Zig a comprehensive introduction to Zig programming language, I would suggest starting your journey with this wonderful book.
— Learning Zig by Karl Seguin, an introduction to Zig programming language without too much hassle.
— Programming with Zig: From Basics to Mastery (still in progress)
Courses 🎓
— Zig in Depth YouTube series about Zig programming
Practices 🛠️
— Ziglings number of exercises to practice Zig programming
People 🫂
— Andrew Kelley, the founder of Zig lang
— Karl Seguin and his blog
— Murat Genc
— Zig SHOWTIME
Libraries 🏛️
— Zigistry like PyPI but for Zig
— Awesome Zig
Websites 🕸️
— Zig News
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Introduction to Zig
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Zig; what I think after months of using it
An opinionated view over Zig programming language: https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025
Author claims that the simplicity of Zig doesn't guarantee the reliability of the software.
But don't forget that Zig didn't reach 1.0 version yet, it is evolving right now.
To be honest I have never heard people saying that Zig is safer than Rust, it cannot be because of control developer has over memory management and allocations. Overall nice deep dive into the trade-offs of Zig. I would recommend reading this article from the top to the bottom.
An opinionated view over Zig programming language: https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025
Author claims that the simplicity of Zig doesn't guarantee the reliability of the software.
I don’t think that simplicity is a good vector of reliable software. At most, it’s a happy side-effect. It’s not a requirement, and should remain a secondary mission. What the industry needs is to identify problems (we have) and designs solutions that solve those problems.
But don't forget that Zig didn't reach 1.0 version yet, it is evolving right now.
To be honest I have never heard people saying that Zig is safer than Rust, it cannot be because of control developer has over memory management and allocations. Overall nice deep dive into the trade-offs of Zig. I would recommend reading this article from the top to the bottom.
If you are using VS Code to write Zig, take a look at this blog post: https://mtlynch.io/notes/zig-vscode-nix/
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My Zig Configuration for VS Code
I finally found a solution that makes VS Code work consistently with Zig, so I’m sharing my setup in the hope that it saves someone else a headache.
Zig extension for…
Zig extension for…
The release of Zig 0.14.0 has been postponed. The new due date is March 3rd, 2025.
Source: https://ziglang.org/news/0.14.0-delayed/
Source: https://ziglang.org/news/0.14.0-delayed/
Another great article from Karl on using switch-case on Strings: Switching on Strings in Zig
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Switching on Strings in Zig
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
How pointers dereferencing works in Zig: https://www.openmymind.net/Zig-Dot-Star-Syntax/
www.openmymind.net
Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
Zig's New Asynс I/O from the creator of Zig: https://youtu.be/mdOxIc0HM04?si=XCVN71lf4FzteM9S
YouTube
Zig's New Async I/O - Andrew & Zig Core Team
Andrew is the President and Lead Developer of Zig Software Foundation. In his talk at Zigtoberfest 2025 he showcases the upcoming Async I/O for the #Zig programming language.
If you like Zig, consider sponsoring the Zig Software Foundation: https://ziglang.org/zsf/…
If you like Zig, consider sponsoring the Zig Software Foundation: https://ziglang.org/zsf/…
The corresponding post from Andrew: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-async-io-text-version.html